Name: Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 13, 2002
Start: 2002-05-13T20:56
End: 2002-05-13T20:56
Location: North Carolina

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

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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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 13, 8:55 PM EST, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 8:55 PM EST, 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
955 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002

WILL HOLD BACK ZFP UPDATE UNTIL TSTMS HAVE EXITED THE CWA AND THE
WATCH EXPIRES. OTHER THAN REMOVING WATCH HEADLINES...NO MAJOR
CHANGES ARE PLANNED FOR THE ZFP UPDATE.

CWF...SCA REMAINS POSTED TNGT AND WILL LIKELY NEED TO BE CONTINUED
THROUGH AT LEAST THE MORNING HOURS TUE. LIKE THE ZFP...WILL HOLD
BACK CWF UPDATE UNTIL WATCH EXPIRES

.MHX...SCA FOR SOUNDS AND COASTAL WATERS.

PETRO

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 13, 8:22 PM EST, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
922 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0918 PM    5 SW ROBERSONVILLE        NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/13/02   MARTIN                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

JME

Local storm report, May 13, 8:42 PM EST, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
942 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0920 PM    2 NW GREENVILLE           NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/13/02   PITT                           SCATTERED TREES DOWN NW OF
                                          GREENVILLEREPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0925 PM    WILLIAMSTON               NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/13/02   MARTIN                         TREES DOWN IN WILLIAMSTON.
                                          CAR WASH BUILDING COLLAPSE
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

0933 PM    WILLIAMSTON               NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/13/02   MARTIN                         REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS

JME

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:56 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Craven

When: May 13, 8:56 PM EST
Where: Craven County, Dover
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.217, -77.450

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

More

Every storm in North Carolina in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in North Carolina, May 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: 5291027.