Thunderstorm Wind, Mecklenburg
- When
- March 26, 4:25 PM EST
- Where
- Mecklenburg County, Huntersville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.417, -80.850
Two large oak trees and a pine tree were blown down.
Damaging Wind in North Carolina, March 26, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 26, 2:20 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 2:20 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 220 PM EST WED MAR 26 2003 SCATTERED PRECIPITATION IN E TN. MAY HAVE TO CARRY SOME POPS IN W THIS EVENING...CERTAINLY IN E. FRONT CROSSES AREA TONIGHT...LEAVING NE WIND IN ITS WAKE. ISENTROPIC LIFT TO SPREAD CLOUDS BACK OVER AREA THU. WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES BELOW GUIDANCE IN WEDGE THU/FRI... DESPITE ETA/GFS ATTEMPT TO BREAK WEDGE EARLY FRI. WILL SPREAD SMALL POPS N INTO AREA FROM THU NIGHT INTO FRI. COLD FRONT APPROACHES FRI NIGHT. LEFT CHACNE POPS IN FOR SHOWERS AHEAD OF BOUNDARY. BY SAT MORNING FRONT NEARLY ON SMOKY MTS. CARRIED LIKELY POPS MTS...CHANCE LEE FOR SATURDAY MORNING. FRONT APPEARS TO CROSS BLUE RIDGE BY MID DAY...SUPPORTING HIGHER POPS LEE THAN MTS SAT AFTERNOON. E PORTION MAY SEE TEMPERATURES WARM SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN MTS SAT WITH CLOUDS/PRECIP/FRONT ARRIVING LATER. ROBUST CAA BEHIND THE SLOW MOVING FRONT ON SUNDAY WITH SOME POOLING OF LLVL RH AND INCREASING NW FLOW. WILL DELAY THE END OF THE NW SNOW SHOWERS TO AROUND NOON...TAPERING TO SPRINKLES AND FLURRIES IN THE AFTERNOON. WITH CRITICAL THICKNESSES WELL IN THE SNOW RANGE AND ONGOING CAA...WITH NEARLY CLOSED OFF H5 TROF OVERHEAD...COULD SEE SOME ACCUMULATIONS SN IN THE HIGH TERRAIN IF SOIL TEMPS ALLOW. MON AM STILL LOOKS COLD WITH GULF HIGH RIDGING IN AT THE TIME OF LOWEST H85. DID NOT FOLLOW MEX GUIDANCE AS LOW AS FREEZE AS GFS APPEARS TO BE THE COLDEST MODEL...FAVORED ROUGHLY THE PREVIOUS FORECAST. WARM UP WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MID WEEK AS CWA REMAINS MAINLY SOUTH OF SFC FRONTS. COOL FRONT WILL START TO SLOWLY DRIFT SOUTH WED AND WILL INCLUDE CHC OF SHOWERS. WILL ISSUE OUTLOOK FOR POSSIBLE FREEZE MONDAY MORNING. ATLHOUGH MOST OF FOOTHILLS/PIEDMONT JUST ABOVE FREEZING...MANY RURAL AREAS...IN PARTICULAR THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS...MAY SEE FREEZE. FCSTID = 7 GSP 48 64 51 64 / 30 20 30 30 AND 50 64 52 64 / 40 20 30 30 CLT 47 64 52 64 / 40 20 30 30 HKY 44 63 49 63 / 30 10 30 30 AVL 42 62 47 62 / 30 10 30 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. O7
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 9:38 AM EST, 6 hours 47 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-261630- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 938 AM EST WED MAR 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...AND IN THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION SATURDAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. THERE MAY ALSO BE A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN. AS THE GROUND WILL STILL BE WET...SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS MAY DEVELOP. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 2:40 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ034>037-054>057-066>072-082-SCZ004>014-019- 270900- FREEZE OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 240 PM EST WED MAR 26 2003 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE MONDAY MORNING... A COLD AIR MASS WILL MOVE INTO THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER THE WEEKEND. BY MONDAY MORNING...A LIGHT WIND AND A MOSTLY CLEAR SKY WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL TO NEAR FREEZING. ALTHOUGH MUCH OF THE AREA IS EXPECTED HAVE A FROST...WITH TEMPERATURES JUST ABOVE FREEZING...RURAL AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO COOLER TEMPERATURES MAY EXPERIENCE A FREEZE. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL FREEZE EVENT. 07
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:24 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
- High Wind in Nevada, March 26, 2003
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, March 26 to 27, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, March 26, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, March 26, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, March 26 to 27, 2003
- Winter Storm in Colorado, March 26 to 27, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, March 26 to 27, 2003
- Winter Storm in Montana, March 26 to 27, 2003
- Heavy Snow in North Dakota, March 26 to 27, 2003
- High Wind and Strong Wind in California, March 26 to 27, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Utah, March 26 to 27, 2003
- High Wind in Colorado, March 26, 2003
More
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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: 5348421.