Thunderstorm Wind, Buncombe
- When
- June 13, 6:05 PM EST
- Where
- Buncombe County, Black Mtn
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.600, -82.317
Some trees and powerlines were blown down.
Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 13, 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
- $1,000
- 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 Jun 13, 2:21 PM EST, 3 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:21 PM EST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 321 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2002 KGSP 88D CONTINUES TO INDICATE A FEW TSTMS ALONG LEE TROUGH IN NC FTHLS WITH BETTER CVRG WEST OF MTNS WHERE GREATER INSTABILITY EXISTS. WOULD STILL EXPECT SOME ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY THRU EARLY EVENING ALONG THE LEE TROUGH & IN MTNS...BUT LESS CERTAIN FOR POINTS SE WHERE DRIER DWPTS HAVE MIXED DOWN. SUBTLE VORTS... SMALL SCALE BNDRYS AND OUTFLOWS PROPAGATING EAST WILL KEEP AT LEAST WESTERN PARTS OF THE CWFA UNDER A THUNDERSTORM THREAT EVEN PAST DIURNALLY FAVORED TIMEFRAME AND WILL KEEP POP WORDING FOR TONIGHT AS SUCH. WE MAY BE DEALING WITH ORGANIZED TSTMS...OR REMNANTS THEREOF... TOMORROW MORNING...WITH DECENT SLUG OF OMEGA TRANSLATING EASTWARD ACRS THE CWFA 12-18Z. AS UPPER TROUGH DEEPENS ACRS THE EASTERN U.S. FRIDAY...THERES LITTLE DOUBT THAT COOLING ALOFT AND A STRENGTHENING VERTICAL WIND PROFILE WILL ACCOMPANY...BUT TIMING WITH GREATEST INSTABILITY MAY WIND UP BEING EAST OF THE CWFA. AT ANY RATE...AS FAR AS ZFP IS CONCERNED SEE LTL REASON TO DEVIATE FROM GOING CHC POPS CWFA WIDE. LLVL CAA AND PROGRESSIVE DRYING IN WAKE OF FRONT WILL BE FEATURED FRIDAY NIGHT...AS LLVL UPSLOPE MOISTURE LINGERS ACRS NC MTNS INTO SATURDAY. 12Z AVN STILL ROUGHLY SUPPORTS IDEA OF RETURN FLOW MOISTURE AND PCPN REDEVELOPING MONDAY OR MONDAY NIGHT...SO WILL ADD POP WORDING FOR THIS PERIOD. MEAN ENSEMBLE POPS STILL HIGHEST ON TUESDAY...SO WILL CONTINUE GOING POP WORDING FOR THEN AS WELL. FCSTID = 55 GSP 68 88 64 84 / 20 40 10 0 AND 69 89 64 85 / 20 40 10 0 CLT 69 88 64 84 / 20 40 10 0 HKY 67 85 62 82 / 20 40 10 0 AVL 65 81 58 79 / 30 40 10 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:06 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 in Pennsylvania, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 13, 2002
- Flooding in Iowa, June 13 to 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 13, 2002
- Flood in West Virginia, June 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Ohio, June 13, 2002
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 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: 5305764.