North Carolina, 2001Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 1, 2001
June 1, 2001 · NWS ILM · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 1, 12:50 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 12:50 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
150 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 500 PM FOR MOST OF CWA.
OMEGA/SHORT WAVE MOVE OFF THE COAST LATE TONIGHT. WILL KEEP LIKELY
POPS IN FOR THE NIGHT TIME HOURS. WILL EMPHASIZE HEAVY RAIN IN
ADDITION TO SEVERE THREAT.
LEE SIDE TROUGH WILL LIE JUST WEST OF FORECAST AREA ON SATURDAY.
LITTLE IN THE WAY OF UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT...BUT WITH STRONG HEATING
EXPECT SCATTERED CONVECTION...ESPECIALLY INLAND...WILL GO WITH 30
POPS INALND AND 20 POPS ALONG SEA BREEZE FRONT FOR THE COAST.
UPPER/SURFACE LOW WILL DRIFT ACROSS NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND SUNDAY
AND SUNDAY NIGHT AND COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DRAG ACROSS THE AREA
SUNDAY NIGHT.
FRONT DOES NOT REALLY CLEAR THE AREA AND STALLS JUST TO SOUTH AND
THEN MOVES TO NORTH AS A WARM FRONT MONDAY NIGHT. WILL INCLUDE
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY.
WILL KEEP DRY ON TUESDAY BUT WILL INCLUDE POPS FOR WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY WITH FRONT BEARING DOWN ON THE AREA. FRONT SHOULD CLEAR
THURSDAY NIGHT WITH HIGH PRESSURE BRINGING A POPLESS FRIDAY.
CWF...WILL KEEP WIND AND SEAS BELOW SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
CRITERIA...HIGHLIGHTING SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AND
THUNDERSTORMS FOR TONIGHT.
PRELIM NUMBERS...
FCSTID = 27
ILM 70 88 68 86 / 70 20 10 20
LBT 69 89 66 87 / 70 30 10 20
FLO 70 90 68 88 / 70 30 10 20
MYR 70 85 68 84 / 70 20 10 20
.ILM...
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.
DIGIORGI
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 1, 12:53 PM EST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
153 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 PM FLORENCE SC WIND DAMAGE
06/01/01 FLORENCE POWER OUT, TREES DOWN ON
FLORENCE/PAMLICO HWY.
REPORTED BY FLORENCE COUNTY
911.
MRRLocal storm report, Jun 1, 2:06 PM EST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
306 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
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0257 PM 3 W BENNETTSVILLE SC 58 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
06/01/01 MARLBORO REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVERLocal storm report, Jun 1, 2:45 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
345 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 PM DILLON SC WIND DAMAGE
06/01/01 DILLON 1 LARGE TREE DOWN ACROSS
BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH BOUND
LANES OF INTERSTATE 95 AND
1 LARGE TREE DOWN ON
COUNTRYSIDE RD.
RJDThunderstorm Wind, Bladen
- When
- June 1, 4:20 PM EST
- Where
- Bladen County, 6 mi SE of Elizabethtown
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.567, -78.550
Emergency manager reported trees down with shingle and siding damage to a house.
- 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.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, June 1, 2001$455,000 · F1 · 34 events
- Tornadoes and Flood in Iowa, June 1, 2001$155,000 · F1 · 14 events
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, June 1, 20013 injured · $52,000 · F1 · 3 events
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, June 1, 2001$100,000 · F0 · 1 event
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 1, 2001F0 · 46 events
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Virginia, June 1, 2001$15,000 · F1 · 7 events
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 1, 2001$40,000 · 52 kt wind · 2 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 1, 20011.75 in hail · 30 events
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 1, 2001$40,000 · 50 kt wind · 1 event
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, June 1, 2001$12,000 · 1 in hail · 22 events
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 1, 2001F0 · 22 events
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 1, 2001$25,000 · 61 kt wind · 1 event
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: 5251679.