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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 7:45 PM EST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC 845 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 WILL UPDATE ZNS TO INCREASE POPS DUE TO ONGONG CONVECTION AND UPSTREAM TRENDS. WILL TAKE CONVECTION TO ARND MIDNIGHT BEFORE TAPERING OFF. VARIOUS SFC BNDRYS...DECENT INSTABILITY AND CIRCULATION ARND REMNANTS OF ALLISON PROVIDING DECENT LATE EVENG CONVECTION. CURRENT FCST TEMPS LOOK ON TARGET. CWF...CIRCULATION FROM ALLISON SLOWLY LIFTING NWRD...AND WILL SLOWLY RELINQUISH A HOLD ON ILM WTRS. ONLY MINOR CHANGE TO WIND DIR. WILL BACK WIND DIR TO SW TO W FOR REST OF OVERNIGHT...WITH 3 TO 4 FT SEAS. FCSTID = 11 ILM 72 90 70 86 / 40 30 30 10 LBT 70 90 67 87 / 40 30 30 10 FLO 71 91 68 88 / 40 30 30 10 MYR 72 89 70 85 / 40 30 30 10 .ILM... NC...NONE. SC...NONE. @ RUKWBCe.KDENFXUS62 KILM 160045 AFDILM AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC 845 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 WILL UPDATE ZNS TO INCREASE POPS DUE TO ONGONG CONVECTION AND UPSTREAM TRENDS. WILL TAKE CONVECTION TO ARND MIDNIGHT BEFORE TAPERING OFF. VARIOUS SFC BNDRYS...DECENT INSTABILITY AND CIRCULATION ARND REMNANTS OF ALLISON PROVIDING DECENT LATE EVENG CONVECTION. CURRENT FCST TEMPS LOOK ON TARGET. CWF...CIRCULATION FROM ALLISON SLOWLY LIFTING NWRD...AND WILL SLOWLY RELINQUISH A HOLD ON ILM WTRS. ONLY MINOR CHANGE TO WIND DIR. WILL BACK WIND DIR TO SW TO W FOR REST OF OVERNIGHT...WITH 3 TO 4 FT SEAS. FCSTID = 11 ILM 72 90 70 86 / 40 30 30 10 LBT 70 90 67 87 / 40 30 30 10 FLO 71 91 68 88 / 40 30 30 10 MYR 72 89 70 85 / 40 30 30 10 .ILM... NC...NONE. SC...NONE. DCH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
652 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....4
0625 PM CHERRY GROVE NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/01 COLUMBUS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENTPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
852 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM ROCKY POINT NC FLASH FLOOD
06/15/01 PENDER STORE AT CORNER OF HWYS
117 AND 210 REPORTED
WIDESPREAD FLOODING. A CAR
LOST CONTROL AND ENDED UP
IN A DITCH.REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS
TMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff reported street flooding and water entering cars.
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, June 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: 5251837.