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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 2:55 PM EST, 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 355 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 OVERVIEW: MOISTURE (12Z PW 1.99) AND INSTABILITY IN PLACE...AS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION. MODELS ARE COMING INTO CLOSER AGREEMENT WITH MOVEMENT OF THE FRONT THROUGH THE AREA. EXPECT EARLY MORNING FROPA AT MHX. VIL OF THE DAY 60-65...HOWEVER MAIN TSTM THREAT APPEARS TO BE STRONG GUSTS WITH WET MICROBURSTS TODAY. SHORT TERM: FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NEAR NC/SC BORDER AND STALL... KEEPING THE CHANCE OF PRECIP IN THE FCST THROUGH FRI. TEMPERATURES WILL BE CONSIDERABLY COOLER AND BELOW NORMAL VALUES. WILL KEEP CLOSE TO MOS GUIDANCE. EXTENDED: FRONT WILL MOVE NORTH DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. WEAK WAVES ALONG THE FRONT WILL MAINTAIN THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN FCST. MON THRU WED THE UPPER TROF WILL WEAKEN WITH RIDGING MOVING INTO THE FCST AREA. THIS WILL WEAKEN THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND REDUCE THE CHANCES OF PRECIP. TEMPERATURES WILL ALSO RETURN TO NEAR SEASONAL NORM. MARINE: WILL CONTINUE SCA FOR SRN WATERS AS NAVY VESSEL AT THE MONITOR RESERVE SE OF DSNL WAS REPORTING SUSTAINED 30 KT WINDS AND 6 FOOT SEAS. MODEL WINDS ALSO SHOW A SLGT INC IN RESPONSE TO A WEAK FRONTAL WAVE DEVELOPING INLAND THIS EVENING. AVN HAS CLOSER TO ETA WITH FASTER SWRD MOVEMENT OF FRONT LATE TONIGHT AIDED BY 1029 MB HIGH AND CONVECTIVELY INDUCED COOL POOL. STILL EXPECTING DECENT NE 25 KT POST FRONTAL SURGE ALL WATERS ON THU INTO THU NIGHT AS HIGH NOSES IN FROM THE N ACCOMPANIED BY CAA OVER WARMER SHELF WATERS. LESS AMPLIFICATION MEANS FRONT WILL REMAIN S OF THE WATERS WITH A PERSISTENT BUT DIMINISHING NE/E FLOW DAYS 3-5. MHX...SCA S OF HAT. FCSTID = 18/08 PRINGLE/ELARDO
NCZ090-101900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 158 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT DUPLIN COUNTY UNTIL 300 PM EDT... AT 158 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST WEST OF WARSAW...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR WARSAW AT 205 PM EDT...KENANSVILLE AT 220 PM EDT...KORNEGAY AT 235 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE ALBERTSON...BEULAVILLE...BOWDENS...CHINQUAPIN...GREENEVERS AND MAGNOLIA. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. JO
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
218 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 PM HOOKERTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 GREENE SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
HOOKERTON REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.NCZ091-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 240 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT LENOIR COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM EDT... AT 240 PM EDT...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER LA GRANGE... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR KINSTON AT 300 PM EDT. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE DAWSON...GRANGERS AND MOSS HILL. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. MC
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
319 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 PM HOOKERTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 GREENE SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
HOOKERTON REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.
0230 PM GREENVILLE NC 0.75 IN HAIL
07/10/02 PITT REPORTED BY PITT COUNTY
911.LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
331 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 PM HOOKERTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 GREENE SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
HOOKERTON REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.
0220 PM 4W ALBERTSON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 DUPLIN *** 3 INJ ***
MOBILE HOME AND CAMPER
OVERTURNED ON SCOTT STORE
ROAD.
0230 PM GREENVILLE NC 0.75 IN HAIL
07/10/02 PITT REPORTED BY PITT COUNTY
911.LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
340 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 PM HOOKERTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 GREENE SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
HOOKERTON REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.
0220 PM 4W ALBERTSON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 DUPLIN *** 3 INJ ***
MOBILE HOME AND CAMPER
OVERTURNED ON SCOTT STORE
ROAD.
0230 PM GREENVILLE NC 0.75 IN HAIL
07/10/02 PITT REPORTED BY PITT COUNTY
911.
0305 PM PINETOWN NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/02 BEAUFORT TREES DOWN WITH 60 TO 70
MPH WINDS. REPORTED BY
BEAUFORT COUNTY 911.The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 46 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:42 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds around 70 mph blew down numerous trees on Camp Lejeune, one of which totaled a truck. Flying debris damaged several other vehicles.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2002
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: 5303253.