1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 1, 1:35 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 135 PM EST SUN APR 1 2001 WILL TRY TO GET THIS OUT BEFORE IT GETS TOO BUSY HERE WITH SEVERE TSTMS. EXPECT A GOOD BIT OF WARNINGS THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON BASED ON LATEST TRENDS ON RADAR AND SATELLITE. HAVE REQUESTED SATELLITE RAPID SCAN OPERATIONS AND IT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 00Z. WITH VERY STRONG VORT...NEGATIVELY TILTED TROUGH...AND H5 TEMPS -20 TO -26 MOVING ACROSS OUR CWA SEVERE TSTMS A GOOD BET FOR S PART OF CWA WHERE H3 JET OF 130 KT WILL BE TRAVERSING. LOOKS LIKE PRETTY DECENT CLEARING OVERNIGHT AND A NICE DAY TOMORROW INTO TOMORROW NIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES OVER THE REGION WITH NW FLOW ALOFT. TEMPS...NGM GUIDANCE TEMPS ARE WARMER THAN MAV FOR TOMORROW NIGHT OTHERWISE GUIDANCE TEMPS ARE CLOSE. WILL LEAN TOWARD COOLER MAV TEMPS TOMORROW NIGHT. EXTENDED...CLOUDS ON THE INCREASE AGAIN TUESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES OFF THE COAST AND A CHANCE OF PCPN TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS WEAK LOW PRESSURE TRACKS ACROSS THE REGION. A NICE WARMUP UPCOMING THIS WEEK AS TEMPS COULD GET INTO THE LOWER 80S OVER INLAND AREAS BY SATURDAY. CWF: FPSN7 COMING UP NICELY AS FORECASTED WITH TIGHTENING OF GRADIENT. STORMS HAVE BROKEN OUT TO THE WEST. LOW PRESSURE TO THE WEST DEEPENING AND BEGINNING ITS MOVE TO THE EAST NOW. MODELS CONSISTENT AND GENERALLY SIMILAR IN THE SHORT TERM. DIVERGENCE OF MODEL OUTPUT ON TUESDAY NIGHT...CONCERNING TIMING AND DIRECTION OF WINDSHIFT. WILL LEAN TOWARD AVN SOLUTION FOR THAT NIGHT. WINDS WILL PICK UP TONIGHT WITH THE PASSING OF THE SFC LOW...AND WILL GO WITH SCA FOR ALL AREAS. WINDS WILL BACK OFF BY TOMORROW AS THE LOW SCOOTS OFF TO THE ENE...AND SFC HIGH BUILDS IN BEHIND THE LOW. .MHX...SCA ALL COASTAL WATERS AND SOUNDS. PUBLIC/FIRE...SHAFFER AVIATION......COLLINS MARINE........NAGLE
NCZ079-090>095-098-012200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 1136 AM EDT SUN APR 1 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON... LOW PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT THIS MORNING WILL MOVE EAST THIS AFTERNOON AS A STRONG UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE MOVES RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. VERY COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT...COMBINED WITH SOME SUNSHINE...WILL PRODUCE AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE LOW...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR SNOW HILL TO VANCEBORO TO CEDAR ISLAND. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. LARGE HAIL ..AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THESE STORMS. SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR NETWORK ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. WS
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
322 PM EDT SUN APR 1 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0242 PM HAWS RUN NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/01/01 ONSLOW REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS
0245 PM JACKSONVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/01/01 ONSLOW
0312 PM FAISON NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/01/01 DUPLIN
0312 PM 2 S WALLACE NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/01/01 DUPLINPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
345 PM EDT SUN APR 1 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0326 PM BACK SWAMP NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/01/01 ONSLOW
0340 PM HALF MOON NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/01/01 ONSLOW REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS
CTCThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe thunderstorm produced a weak tornado that touched down near Cape Carteret, blowing over trees and power lines.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 2001Warnings in North Carolina, April 2001
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