1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 12:35 PM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 135 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE CONVERGENCE HAS ORIENTED ITSELF NORTH SOUTH AS FORECAST BY MODELS AND SHOULD BE REPLACED BY GENERAL SOUTHWEST FLOW THIS EVENING. EXPECTED A BIT MORE ACTIVITY EAST OF CHARLOTTE. BUT WITH CONFLUENCE AND HIGH THETA E VALUES THERE AS WELL AS TEMPERATURES AROUND 80 SOME REGENERATION SHOULD OCCUR. EARLY NIGHT TIME RAIN CHANCES SHOULD BE A BIT BETTER IN THE EAST WITH DECREASING CHANCES WEST. AS 850MB WINDS INCREASE TONIGHT MODELS AGREE IN BRINGING GOOD SPEED CONVERGENCE INTO SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA BUT TIMING WILDLY DIFFERENT. WOULD PREFER HIGHER POPS TO SOUTH TONIGHT BUT THIS IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO SURROUNDING OFFICES SO WILL LEAVE BROAD 30 POPS ALONE. RETURN OF MID AND UPPER 80S FORECAST MONDAY TUESDAY. 850MB TROUGH LOOKS TO PASS GREENSBORO IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON MONDAY AND SHOULD SHUTTLE ANY PRECIPITATION TO THE EAST WITH ALL CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA LIKELY DRY BEFORE SUNSET. GFS DROPPING A FRONT INTO THE STATE FROM VIRGINIA BEFORE SUNSET WEDNESDAY WHILE THE ETA CONTENT TO HOLD FRONT TO OUR NORTHWEST. ETA STRONG CLOSED 500MB LOW LOOKING TOO STRONG AND TOO FAR SOUTH. NOT 100 PERCENT SOLD ON FRONTAL PASSAGE TIMING BUT WILL LEAN FORECAST MORE TOWARD THE GFS AT THIS TIME. WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY: STRONG VORT AXIS SHIFTING SOUTH AS THE TROUGH SETS UP OVER THE EASTERN UNITED STATES EQUALS COOLER TEMPS BUT...AS NCEP MENTIONS...DIFFICULTY DETERMINING THE CHANCE AND TIMING OF RAIN...ESPECIALLY IN THE LATTER PERIODS. BEST POPS WILL BE WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE AND WILL CONTINUE CHANCES INTO THURSDAY...MAINLY SOUTH DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE STALLING FRONTAL POSITION. LATEST GFS CONTINUES TO PUSH THE FRONT SOUTH OF THE STATE WITH SOME CYCLOGENESIS OVER THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES FRIDAY AS A STRONGER SHORT WAVE ROUNDS THE TROUGH. PENDING LATER MODEL CONSENSUS...AT THIS POINT I WILL CONTINUE THE DRY TREND FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. HARD TO DIFFERENTIATE ONE DAY FROM ANOTHER TEMPERATURE WISE AS WELL...PERSISTENCE 60-65 LOWS AND UPPER 70-LOW 80 HIGHS. --MLM && .RAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. && RLH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 540 AM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-311000- ALAMANCE NC-ANSON NC-CHATHAM NC-CUMBERLAND NC-DAVIDSON NC- DURHAM NC-EDGECOMBE NC-FORSYTH NC-FRANKLIN NC-GRANVILLE NC- GUILFORD NC-HALIFAX NC-HARNETT NC-HOKE NC-JOHNSTON NC- LEE NC-MONTGOMERY NC-MOORE NC-NASH NC-ORANGE NC-PERSON NC- RANDOLPH NC-RICHMOND NC-SAMPSON NC-SCOTLAND NC-STANLY NC- VANCE NC-WAKE NC-WARREN NC-WAYNE NC-WILSON NC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBEMARLE...ASHEBORO...BURLINGTON... CARTHAGE...CARY...CHAPEL HILL...CLINTON...CREEDMOOR... DOWNTOWN RALEIGH...DURHAM...FAYETTEVILLE...FORT BRAGG...GOLDSBORO... GRAHAM...GREENSBORO...HALIFAX...HENDERSON...HIGH POINT... HILLSBOROUGH...LAURINBURG...LEXINGTON...LILLINGTON...LOUISBURG... MOUNT OLIVE...NASHVILLE...OXFORD...PITTSBORO...RAEFORD...RALEIGH... RANDLEMAN...ROANOKE RAPIDS...ROCKINGHAM...ROCKY MOUNT...ROXBORO... SANFORD...SILER CITY...SMITHFIELD...SOUTHERN PINES...TARBORO... TROY...WADESBORO...WARRENTON...WEST RALEIGH AND WINSTON-SALEM 528 AM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TODAY. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS... WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES. RAINFALL SHOULD AVERAGE BETWEEN A QUARTER AND A HALF INCH WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS NEAR ONE INCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MEMORIAL DAY... MAINLY BETWEEN THE LATE MORNING AND MID AFTERNOON HOURS. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. THERE IS A RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE HEAVY RAINFALL... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY MEMORIAL DAY.
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:54 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were blown down along Highway 53 near Bushy Lake.
Golfball sized hail reported on Overhills Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, May 2004
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: 5394203, 5394204.