1 lightning, 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 Aug 28, 12:20 PM EST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 120 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 2001 PTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH CHCY POPS LOOK TO CONT THRU PD. MDLS INDICATE WEAK SRT WVS WILL MOVE ENE ACRS REGION NEXT CPL DAYS AND PRODUCING SCT SHRA/TSRA IN MOIST/UNSTBLE AIRMASS. EXPECT MOST OF PRECIP TO BE DURING AFTN AND EVENING BUT WL NOT TIME REF GIVEN UNCERTAINTY IN SRT WVS. GIVEN THE WEAKNESS OF UPR FEATURES THINK BEST TO KEEP POPS IN CHC RANGE. RDR CRNTLY QUIET BUT EXPECT TSRA TO FIRE THIS AFTN PER STRONG INSTAB AND THESE SHLD CONT INTO OVERNIGHT HOURS AS SRT WV MOVES ACRS SRN TIER. SHLD SEE ENUF BREAKS IN CLOUDS TO SEE HIGHS IN THE 85 TO 90 DGR RANGE AWAY FROM BEACHES NEXT CPL DAYS. MUGGY AT NIGHT WITH LOWS IN LOW TO MID 70S. LABOR DAY WEEKEND LOOKS UNSETTLED AS DEEP MOISTURE REMAINS ACRS REGION AND FRONT STALLS IN VICINTY. CWF: SW WINDS IN 15 TO 20 KT RANGE THEN BECOME W LATE AROUND 15 KT. GRADIENT WEAKENS TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND WINDS STAY LESS THAN 15 KT UNTIL THU AFTERNOON WHEN GRADIENT TIGHTENS AGAIN AND WINDS COME AROUND MORE TO THE SOUTH. RIP CURRENT THREAT WILL BE LOW N OF CAPE HATTERAS AND APPROACHING INCREASED FOR S FACING BEACHES. .MHX...NONE. RF/WS
NCZ044-079-080-090>095-098-282300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 230 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 2001 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE REGION THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AREAS SOUTH OF A GREENVILLE TO BELHAVEN LINE WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. RF
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:57 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike started a fire destroying a mobile home in Kinston.
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 historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 2001
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: 5261805.