High Wind, Watauga
- When
- March 5, 2:00 AM EST to 7:00 AM EST
- Where
- Watauga forecast zone
- Property damage
- $125,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 36.231, -81.696 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in North Carolina, March 5, 2001
High winds during the early morning of the 5th downed numerous trees in the Blowing Rock area of Watauga county. Several houses were damaged as winds ripped shingles off their roofs.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $125,000
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS RNK wrote it up.
High winds during the early morning of the 5th downed numerous trees in the Blowing Rock area of Watauga county. Several houses were damaged as winds ripped shingles off their roofs. One house suffered over $50,000 damage as the roof was blown off and walls were damaged by the high wind. A number of trees were downed onto vehicles and buildings, resulting in numerous reports of minor damage.
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 Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 4, 9:12 PM EST, 4 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 9:12 PM EST, 4 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 912 PM EST SUN MAR 4 2001 SFC LOW NOW OVER SW VA/SE WVA CONTG TO GRDLY SHIFT ENERGY TO ALONG THE COAST AS DEPICTED BY INCRSG PRES FALLS AND MCON OFF MSAS FROM THE NC COAST NWD. ISENT LIFT JUST AHEAD OF UPR SYS STILL PRODUCING AREAS OF LGT/MOD RAINFALL ACROSS SW VA/SE WVA JUST IN ADVANCE OF DEFORMATION WRAP ARND PRECIP THAT WILL BE THE MAIN PLAYER OVRNGT. SEEING PRECIP GO OVER TO SNOW AS FAR E AS WRN WVA ATTM/HSP IN VA AND EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONT SEWD WITH SE WVA CHANGING OVER A FEW HRS AFTER MIDNGT. STILL IFFY AS TO SNOW AMTS SE WVA BY MORN WITH BEST SUPPORT N BUT GIVEN PROX OF APCHG BRIGHT BAND AND QPF OFF MESO-ETA AM A BIT LEARY TO LOWER ACCUMS MUCH. ELSW...WARM NOSE ALOFT OFF EVE RAOBS LKLY TO KEEP MAJ OF PRECIP LIQUID TIL MORN EXCEPT FAR WRN CTYS OF SW VA. THUS MAY SLOW SWITCH TO -SN DOWN A BIT NW NC AND REDUCE AMTS WITH BEST CAA TO THE NW OTRW GOING POPS LOOK OK EXCEPT SE. WILL ALSO ADJUST WINDS UP A BIT FOR MON W PER APCHG PRES RISES AS MAY NEED TO INCLUDE ADVSRY/WRNG TYPE GRAD LATER MON. TEMPS APR GOOD AS MOST SHOULD REMAIN ABT STEADY UNTIL NW TRAJ BEGINS TO KICK IN BETTER CAA AFTER MIDNGT. THUS WILL UPDATE FOR MINOR ADJUSTS BUT CONT GOING WATCHES WHERE ALRDY IN PLACE. .RNK... NC...WINTER STORM WATCH MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT FOR NCZ001-018. VA...WINTER STORM WATCH MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT FOR VAZ007-009-015. WV...WINTER STORM WATCH MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT FOR WVZ042-043-045. JH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding and Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Rhode Island, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Connecticut, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 5 to 6, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, March 5 to 6, 2001
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, March 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: 5235479.