3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 25, 1:28 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 228 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2001 NEAR TERM... SURFACE OBS ARE GIVING MIXED SIGNALS FOR INITIATION OF DEEP CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. AREAS OF LOW DEW POINT AIR SOUTH AND EAST WILL INHIBIT CONVECTIVE GROWTH. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOW A PATTERN OF CLOUD STREETS INDICATING A STABLE LAYER...LIKELY CAPPING CONVECTION AT THIS TIME IN THE EASTERN 2/3RDS. EASTERN EDGE OF THIS CAPPING STABLE LAYERS APPEARS TO BE JUST EAST OF I-95. WITH THE COLD FRONT DRIFTING EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS THIS EVENING...THE BROAD CONVERGENCE ZONE OVER CENTRAL NC IS EXPECTED TO SHARPEN AS DEPICTED BY THE LATEST RUC OUTPUT. THIS SHOULD PROVIDE SUFFICIENT LIFT...THOUGH QUESTIONABLE AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE...FOR DEEP CONVECTION AND A LINK TO STRONGER DYNAMICS ALOFT. A 40-60 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ADVERTISED FOR TONIGHT...WITH A CONTINUED MENTION OF POSSIBLE SEVERITY AND AN EXPECTED WATCH FROM SPC. SATURDAY... ANOTHER SHORT WAVE ROUNDING THE BEND FROM THE GREAT PLAINS SHOULD ARRIVE AT MAX HEATING TIME AGAIN SATURDAY FOR THE POTENTIAL OF STRONG...POSSIBLY SEVERE...THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...AS THE CASE TODAY...THE PRIMARY MOISTURE SOURCE REGIONS...GULF AND GULF STREAM ATLANTIC...REMAINED "RIDGED OFF" AT 850 MB. A LIMITED LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SUPPLY SHOULD KEEP CONVECTION SCATTERED RATHER THAN WIDESPREAD FOR SATURDAY. SUNDAY AND BEYOND... MODELS TEND TO STABILIZE THE AIRMASS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. PREDOMINANT WESTERLY COMPONENT AT 850 MB SHOULD KEEP DEEP CONVECTION WIDELY SCATTERED LATE SUNDAY AND EARLY SUNDAY NIGHT. THE UPPER LEVEML LOW AND ASSOCIATED COLD POOL DRIFT NORTHWARD STARTING MONDAY THAT AGAIN SHOULD KEEP DEEP CONVECTION WIDELY SCATTERED AND LIMITED TO LATE DAY HOURS. MAX/MIN TEMPERATURES WILL STAY CLOSE TO CLIMATOLOGY. .RAH...NONE. RFG
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-252200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1110 AM EDT FRI MAY 25 2001 ALAMANCE-ANSON-CHATHAM-CUMBERLAND-DAVIDSON-DURHAM-EDGECOMBE-FORSYTH- FRANKLIN-GRANVILLE-GUILFORD-HALIFAX-HARNETT-HOKE-JOHNSTON-LEE- MONTGOMERY-MOORE-NASH-ORANGE-PERSON-RANDOLPH-RICHMOND-SAMPSON- SCOTLAND-STANLY-VANCE-WAKE-WARREN-WAYNE-WILSON- ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA BETWEEN 2 PM AND 10 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .SKYWARN SPOTTERS... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING THE TRIAD...AND ESPECIALLY THE RALEIGH-DURHAM...AND FAYETTEVILLE AREAS FROM MID AFTERNOON TO THE LATE EVENING HOURS. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO IMMEDIATELY REPORT ANY THREATENING WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. .SYNOPTIC PATTERN... WARM SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT AND STRONG UPPER LEVEL WINDS. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE IN THE EAST THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST AND MOST PERSISTENT STORMS ARE LIKELY NEAR A LINE FROM LAURINBURG THROUGH FAYETTEVILLE TO THE RALEIGH-DURHAM AND OXFORD-HENDERSON AREAS. .HAZARDOUS WEATHER DETAILS... COOLER AIR AND STRONGER WINDS ALOFT WILL MAKE THE ATMOSPHERE INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL CREATE A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS. THE GREATEST THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE BETWEEN 2 PM AND 10 PM. STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL NEAR 1 INCH OR GREATER IN DIAMETER WILL BE THE MAIN DANGERS WITH THESE STORMS...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS. RFG
NCZ010-011-026>028-041>043-077-078-088-089-252330- BULLETIN SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 140 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2001 CUMBERLAND-EDGECOMBE-FRANKLIN-HALIFAX-HARNETT-JOHNSTON-NASH-SAMPSON- WAKE-WARREN-WAYNE-WILSON- ...SMOKE FROM FLORIDA FOREST FIRES IS DRIFTING NORTH TOWARD CENTRAL EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND IS APT TO CAUSE REDUCED VISIBILITY AND POOR AIR QUALITY THIS EVENING... SMOKE FROM FOREST FIRES IN NORTHERN FLORIDA IS DRIFTING NORTHWARD ON SOUTHERLY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON. THE DENSE SMOKE PLUME HAS DRIFTED THROUGH THE COASTAL PLAIN OF SOUTH CAROLINA CAUSING SURFACE VISIBILITY TO DROP TO ONE HALF MILE IN SOME PLACES. THE SMOKE PLUME IS ON A COURSE TO ARRIVE NEAR FAYETTEVILLE AND CLINTON BY 500 PM THIS EVENING...SMITHFIELD AND GOLDSBORO BY 600 PM...AND MAY CONTINUE NORTHWARD TO AFFECT AREAS FROM NEAR RALEIGH TO TARBORO AND ROANOKE RAPIDS LATER THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY WASH OUT AND DILUTE THE SMOKE PLUME BEFORE IT ARRIVES OR MAY PUSH THE PLUME FURTHER EAST. BUT RESIDENTS IN THE AREAS FROM RALEIGH AND FAYETTEVILLE EAST THROUGH THE COASTAL PLAIN...INCLUDING AREAS ALONG INTERSTATE 9M5...SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL OF REDUCED VISIBILITY AND POOR AIR QUALITY DUE TO SMOKE THIS EVENING. PEOPLE WITH RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS MAY WANT TO STAY INDOORS THIS EVENING UNTIL THIS SMOKE EPISODE HAS PASSED. RFG
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:21 UTC.
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Eight to ten trees were blown down in a mobile home park, and the roofs were peeled back on some of the mobile homes.
An estimated 150 acres of crops were damaged due to hail.
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, May 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: 5243143, 5243144, 5243145, 5243146.