1 flash flood, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 30, 8:30 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 930 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001 ...PROBLEM OF THE NIGHT IS THE INCREASE IN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL ENERGY MOVING OVERHEAD... WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATED A VORTICITY MAXIMA OVER THE SOUTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NC DURING THE MID EVENING. THIS FEATURE HAS A ILL DEFINED BACK EDGE STRETCHING SOUTHWARD INTO SC AROUND CAE. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS BECAME MORE NUMEROUS AGAIN AROUND SUNSET WITH THIS FEATURE JUST WEST OF RDU. THE ACTIVITY IS FAIRLY SLOW MOVING AND IF IT INCREASES IN INTENSITY... IT WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS. THE AIR MASS CONTINUES UNSTABLE BUT IT WAS WORKED OVER FAIRLY WELL BY CONVECTION EARLIER. THIS WILL LIKELY LIMIT THE CURRENT ACTIVITY FROM BECOMING A PROBLEM. WE MAY YET NEED TO ADD MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN TO SOME COUNTIES... EAST OF THE TRIAD AND ALBEMARLE/BADIN... UNTIL THE UPPER ENERGY PUSHES EAST. THE CURRENT TREND OF LOWER POP LATE TONIGHT STILL SEEMS ON TARGET. NO OTHER CHANGES AT THIS TIME. .RAH...NONE. BADGETT
NCZ040-310530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1029 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001 ...HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CHATHAM COUNTY... RADAR ESTIMATES HAVE SHOWN THAT A SWATH OF ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED SINCE 700 PM THIS EVENING OVER CENTRAL CHATHAM COUNTY. THIS IN ADDITION TO RAIN FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER IN THE AFTERNOON MAY HAVE CAUSED LOCALIZED AMOUNTS UP TO FIVE INCHES AND MAY HAVE SWOLLEN MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS OCCURRED FROM NEAR THE TOWN OF HASTY IN WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY EASTWARD TO NEAR PITTSBORO AND FEARRINGTON NEAR JORDAN LAKE. CREEKS IN THE AREA...INCLUDING TICK CREEK AND ROCKY RIVER THAT EMPTY INTO DEEP RIVER TO THE SOUTH WILL EXPERIENCE RAPID RISES TONIGHT. PEOPLE ALONG THESE CREEKS AND RIVERS AND TRAVELING ON ROADS IN THE AREA TONIGHT ARE ADVISED TO USE CAUTION. NEVER DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADS AND HIGHWAYS...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. FLOODED ROADWAYS SHOULD BE REPORTED TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS AND QUICKLY RELAYED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT OVER CHATHAM COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. RFG
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:59 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Some basements and buisnesses were flooded in Pittsboro. Hanks Chapel and Austin Chapel Roads were closed, southwest of Pittsboro.
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: 5262834.