Thunderstorm Wind, Swain
- When
- July 9, 1:30 AM EST
- Where
- Swain County, Bryson City
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.433, -83.450
Four reports of trees blown down around town.
Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 9, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 8, 8:50 PM EST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 8:50 PM EST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 950 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001 PLAN ON ISSUING ZFP UPDATE NEAR 10 PM COINCIDENT WITH WATCH EXPIRATION. KGSP RADAR LOOPS SHOW TSTMS GRADUALLY WEAKENING ALONG SOUTHERN & WESTERN EDGES OF CWFA & A SHRINKING AREA OF STRATIFORM RAIN IN THEIR WAKE. NEXT CONVECTIVE COMPLEX IS JUST SOUTH OF OHIO RIVER & CONTINUING TO PROGRESS RAPIDLY SWD. EVEN THOUGH CWFA HAS BEEN WORKED OVER PRETTY WELL THIS EVENING...WITH LAPS DATA SHOWING JUST A FEW HUNDRED CAPE OVER WESTERN & SOUTHERN SECTIONS...WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS IN MTNS & TAPER TO CHC PIEDMONT. KGSP STP SHOWS SOME 1.5 TO 2 INCH PIXELS...BUT DEEP CONVECTION MOVED RATHER RAPIDLY ACRS THE AREA THIS EVENING...TO KEEP MANY AREAS WITH JUST LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL TOTALS...SO DON'T PLAN ON ANY FFA. FCSTID = 55 GSP 71 87 72 92 / 50 40 30 30 AND 71 87 72 92 / 50 40 30 30 CLT 71 87 72 9 2 / 40 40 30 30 HKY 69 86 69 90 / 60 40 30 30 AVL 65 82 65 87 / 70 40 30 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:32 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 Washington, July 9 to 23, 2001
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 9 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flood in Virginia, July 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, July 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 9, 2001
- Flash Flood in Maine, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 9, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 9, 2001
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 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: 5261276.