Thunderstorm Wind, Rowan
- When
- May 23, 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Rowan County, Salisbury
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.667, -80.500
Trees fell on power and cable lines.
Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 23, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- None recorded
- 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 23, 2:42 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 2:42 PM EST, 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 342 PM EDT WED MAY 23 2001 AN UPPER LOW IS EXPECTED TO KEEP SPINNING OVER MIDWEST THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH CYCLONIC CIRCULATION CONTINUING SOUTH THROUGH THIS CWA. NUMEROUS DISTURBANCES WILL ROTATING AROUND THE LOW WILL CROSS CWA... WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR MORE RAIN COMING THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. COLD AIR ALOFT WILL BRING HIGH LAPSE RATES TO THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND WILL COMBINE WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND UPPER DIVERGENCE TO BRING THE CHANCE FOR THE RAIN. WITH THE FREEZING LEVEL RELATIVELY LOW... THERE MAY EVEN BE SOME HAIL IF STORMS DEVELOP. MOISTURE WILL DECREASE SOME SATURDAY AND SUNDAY BUT A SMALL CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE... ESPECIALLY FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS WHEN WE WILL BE MOST UNSTABLE. FCSTID = 69 GSP 53 74 60 73 / 10 40 60 40 AND 53 76 61 74 / 10 40 60 40 CLT 52 77 58 71 / 10 30 50 50 HKY 52 72 57 70 / 10 40 60 50 AVL 47 68 54 67 / 10 40 60 50 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:57 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in California, May 23 to 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oregon, May 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 23, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, May 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 23, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 23, 2001
- Wildfire in Florida, May 23, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 23, 2001
- Hail in Indiana, May 23, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 23 to 24, 2001
- Wildfire in Oregon, May 23 to 25, 2001
- Extreme Cold in Alabama, May 23, 2001
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, May 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: 5244867.