6/26/2023 4:12:00 PM until 6/26/2023 5:00:00 PM

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature`s leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.

The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... South central Augusta County in western Virginia... The west central City of Waynesboro in western Virginia... * Until 500 PM EDT. * At 412 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Stuarts Draft, or 9 miles south of Staunton, moving east at 25 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damaging winds will cause some trees and large branches to fall. This could injure those outdoors, as well as damage homes and vehicles. Roadways may become blocked by downed trees. Localized power outages are possible. Unsecured light objects may become projectiles. * Locations impacted include... Waynesboro, Stuarts Draft, Sherando, Fishersville, Lyndhurst, Greenville and Mint Spring. HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH