Thunderstorm Wind, Wilkes
- When
- August 18, 5:10 PM EST
- Where
- Wilkes County, Wilkesboro
- Coordinates
- 36.206, -81.163 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 18, 1995
3 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Wilkes
- When
- August 18, 5:45 PM EST
- Where
- Wilkes County, Traphill
- Coordinates
- 36.206, -81.163 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorm Wind, Watauga
- When
- August 18, 7:10 PM EST
- Where
- Watauga County, Blowing Rock
- Coordinates
- 36.231, -81.696 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorms in northwest North Carolina during the early evening hours on the 18th produced damaging lightning and damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds downed trees, large tree limbs, power poles and power lines in Blowing Rock and downed trees in Wilkesboro and Traphill. Lightning started a fire which resulted in $75 thousand in damage to a church three miles west of Hamptonville. Lightning started a fire which destroyed a barn, 20 bales of hay and lumber in Austin. Lightning destroyed two computer systems and a telephone at a business in Yadkinville. There was also extensive electrical damage done as well. Total damage was estimated at $8 thousand. Another lightning strike in Yadkinville resulted in $700 in damage to a phone system at a business in Yadkinville.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 18, 1995
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- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, August 18, 1995
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 18, 1995
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10337803, 10337804, 10337692.