Thunderstorm Wind, Lenoir
- When
- August 18, 2:15 PM EST to 2:30 PM EST
- Where
- Lenoir County, Countywide
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.300, -77.633
Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 18, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- 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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Aug 18, 9:43 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 9:43 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1043 AM EDT SAT AUG 18 2001 FRONT HAS STALLED NEAR ORF-CLT LINE AND LITTLE ADDITIONAL MOVEMENT EXPECTED TODAY. ONGOING CONVECTION IN PRE-FRONTAL ZONE STARTING TO WANE AS SHRT WV STARTING TO MOVE OUT. THIS AGREES WELL WITH LATEST MODELS WHICH INDICATE LULL 15-21Z THEN REDEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING AS ANOTHER SHRT WV MOVES IN. WILL UPDATE ZFP MAINLY FOR INLAND AREAS WHERE WILL UP POPS TO 50% AND LOWER MAX TEMPS TO MID TO UPPER 80S. COAST GENERALLY OK. CWF: ONLY CHANGE WAS TO DROP SPEED 5 KNOTS FOR N WATERS AS CURRENT WINDS ARE NOT AS HIGH AS IN PREVIOUS FCST. CONTINUED THOUGHT OF INCREASING WINDS LATER THIS AFTERNOON WITH SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION LATE THIS AFTERNOON FOR WATERS S OF OCRACOKE INLET. .MHX...NONE. JBM/WS
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Wildfire in California, August 18 to 25, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, August 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, August 18, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Indiana, August 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Indiana, August 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Florida, August 18, 2001
- Tornado in North Carolina, August 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, August 18, 2001
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 2001
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: 5261800.