Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 16 to 17, 2000

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

None recorded

Crop damage

None recorded

Events

1

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 Morehead City radar (KMHX), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:23 UTC.

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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.

• Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 16, 20001 injured · $1.0 million · 1 event
• Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 16, 2000$250,000 · 2 events
• Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 16, 2000$80,000 · 1.75 in hail · 2 events
• Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16, 2000$75,000 · 56 kt wind · 2 events
• Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16, 2000$60,000 · 65 kt wind · 2 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, August 16, 2000$50,000 · 61 kt wind · 4 events
• Lightning Strike in Vermont, August 16, 2000$50,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Connecticut, August 16, 2000$5,000 · F1 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 16, 2000$30,000 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, August 16, 2000$20,000 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 16, 2000$20,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 16, 2000$14,000 · 50 kt wind · 5 events

Every storm in North Carolina in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 2000

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: 5173074.