Thunderstorm Wind, Haywood
- When
- January 24, 8:30 AM EST
- Where
- Haywood County, Canton
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 35.533, -82.833
2 trees were reported blown down.
Damaging Wind in North Carolina, January 24, 2002
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 Jan 24, 8:09 AM EST, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 8:09 AM EST, 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 809 AM EST THU JAN 24 2002 UPDATE TO MOVE UP THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING IN NC MOUNTAINS... AND TO ADD HEAVY RAIN THERE AS WELL...AND MENTION DAMAGING WINDS TN LINE. FCSTID = 7 GSP 68 51 58 40 / 70 90 30 30 AND 68 51 58 40 / 70 90 30 30 CLT 68 51 58 40 / 60 90 30 30 HKY 66 47 56 38 / 70 80 30 30 AVL 64 46 52 36 / 100 90 30 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ048... NCZ051>053...NCZ058>059. SC...NONE.
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:32 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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, January 24, 2002
- Heat in Georgia, January 24 to 31, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Kentucky, January 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, January 24, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Alabama, January 24, 2002
- High Wind in Washington, January 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, January 24, 2002
- High Wind in Wyoming, January 24 to 26, 2002
- Flooding in West Virginia, January 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 24, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 24, 2002
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, January 2002
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: 5278974.