High Wind, Rockingham
- When
- March 6, 9:00 AM EST to 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Rockingham forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 36.396, -79.775 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in North Carolina, March 6, 2001
In Reidsville in Rockingham County, trees were downed onto power lines resulting in power outages. One tree was downed onto a house, causing serious damage to the roof.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $15,000
- 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.
In Reidsville in Rockingham County, trees were downed onto power lines resulting in power outages. One tree was downed onto a house, causing serious damage to the roof.
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 6, 7:50 AM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 7:50 AM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA
750 AM EST TUE MAR 6 2001
WILL DO A QUICK UPDATE TO ADD LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS TO MOUNTAINS
OUTSIDE OF WSW FOR TODAY. KFCX INDICATING NICE BANDS OF UP TO 28 DBZ
INTO NRV AND ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS. WILL ALSO LOWER MAXS IN SERN
WV...THE NRV AND ROA/SRN SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
.RNK...
NC...WINTER STORM & HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY NCZ001-018
WIND ADVISORY TODAY NCZ002>006-019-020.
VA...WINTER STORM & HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY VAZ009-015
WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY VAZ007
WIND ADVISORY TODAY
VAZ007-010>014-016>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059.
WV...WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY WVZ042-043-045
WIND ADVISORY TODAY WVZ042>045.
NOGUEIRAThe 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
- Storm Surge in Maine, March 6 to 7, 2001
- Storm Surge in New Hampshire, March 6 to 7, 2001
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in Virginia, March 6, 2001
- Strong Wind in Virginia, March 6 to 7, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Maine, March 6 to 31, 2001
- High Wind in North Carolina, March 6, 2001
- Strong Wind in Maryland, March 6 to 7, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 6 to 31, 2001
- Strong Wind in West Virginia, March 6 to 7, 2001
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, March 6, 2001
- High Wind in North Carolina, March 6, 2001
- Blizzard in North Carolina, March 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: 5233590.