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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 1:34 PM EST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH AN UPPER TROUGH PUSHING THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT...BRINGING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. AS THE REMNANTS OF ALLISON AND THE FRONT MOVE OUT TO SEA ON SUNDAY...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA BRINGING FAIR WEATHER THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. MECHANISMS FOR LIFT ARENT TOO IMPRESSIVE TONIGHT AS CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT LOOKS TO BE LIMITED. HOWEVER...WITH CONVECTION ALREADY POPPING IN CONFLUENT W-NW FLOW IN THE WAKE OF ALLISON...WILL GO WITH CHC POPS FOR TONIGHT AS THE ATMOSPHERE IS RATHER UNSTABLE. NO POPS...OTHER THAN 10 PERCENT FOR POTENTIAL SEA BREEZE ACTION BEYOND TONIGHT. IN THE EXTENDED...NEXT CHANCE OF PRECIP LOOKS TO BE WITH A COLD FRONT WHICH IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. CWF: LIGHT W-SW WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME NORTH AROUND DAYBREAK SUN. N WINDS SUN SHOULD BECOME NE LATE AND CONTINUE INTO MON. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS: FCSTID = 31 ILM 71 88 68 88 / 40 10 0 10 LBT 70 90 68 89 / 40 10 0 0 FLO 70 90 68 89 / 40 10 0 0 MYR 71 88 68 88 / 40 10 0 10 .ILM... NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RAN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck an apartment unit, starting a fire.
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
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