4 high 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 24, 9:44 PM EST, 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 944 PM EST SAT NOV 24 2001 PRECIPITATION SPREADING ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWFA FROM THE WEST. SOME CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED ALONG SFC FNT AND MOVING NORTH IN SLY FLOW ABOVE SFC. OBS FROM CLT METRO AND GRD INDICATE SFC FNT MOVING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS SRN CWFA BOUNDARY. GIVEN WEAKENING ACTIVITY MAY CLEAR COUNTIES FROM TORNADO WATCH BEFORE EXPIRATION. HOWEVER PER SWOMCD...ACTIVITY ACROSS E TN PICKING UP...SO WILL WAIT A WHILE BEFORE UPDATING ZONES IN CASE WW IS ISSUED. MOST UNSTABLE ATMOS HAS SHIFTED TO NC MTNS WHERE GEOGRAPHY PUTS THEM ABOVE COLD POOL. SRN AND ERN SECTIONS OF CLT METRO ALSO UNSTABLE...BUT BEST ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR LATER THERE. WILL LIKELY HAVE TO BUMP REST OF CWFA UP TO CAT POPS. WIND ADVISORY STILL LOOKS GOOD FOR THE NC MTNS GIVEN RECENT INCREASE IN WIND SPEEDS AND OBSERVED WINDS ON 00Z RAOBS. SINCE THEY ARE ABOVE THE STABLE LAYER...WINDS COULD EASILY BE TRANSPORTED TO THE SFC. EXPECT WEDGE TO HOLD ON IN THE FOOTHILLS AND MUCH OF THE PIEDMONT OVERNIGHT...SO WILL ADJUST ZONES TO REFLECT THIS. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...WIND ADVISORY FOR SATURDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ033... NCZ048>053...NCZ058>059...NCZ062>065. SC...NONE. RWH
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A marginal high wind event developed, with most mountain counties reporting winds below damaging levels., However, in these 4 zones, winds gusted to a high enough level to cause scattered trees to be downed, with some power outages resulting.
A marginal high wind event developed, with most mountain counties reporting winds below damaging levels., However, in these 4 zones, winds gusted to a high enough level to cause scattered trees to be downed, with some power outages resulting.
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, November 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: 5272430, 5272431, 5272432, 5272433.