North Carolina, 2005

High Wind in North Carolina, January 22 to 23, 2005

January 22 to 23, 2005 · NWS GSP · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

High winds spilled into the foothills during the late evening, blowing down quite a few trees, mainly near the Blue Ridge.

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
2

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 happened

The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.

High winds spilled into the foothills during the late evening, blowing down quite a few trees, mainly near the Blue Ridge.

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 Jan 22, 9:42 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 9:42 PM EST, 18 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 22, 6:22 AM EST, 15 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
622 AM EST SAT JAN 22 2005

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-231121-
ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC-
CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC-
CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC-
GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC-
HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC-
MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC-
OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC-
RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA-
SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC-
622 AM EST SAT JAN 22 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...
FREEZING RAIN...POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET IS POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF
THE AREA THIS MORNING. PLEASE SEE CAEWSWGSP FOR MORE INFORMATION. A
STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT...RESULTING IN A
TRANSITION TO SNOW ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. HEAVY SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED
ALONG THE TENNESSEE BORDER. SEE CAEWSWGSP FOR DETAILS. STRONG
NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT. THESE WINDS
COULD REACH DAMAGING LEVELS AT TIMES ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA
MOUNTAINS. PLEASE SEE CAENPWGSP FOR MORE INFORMATION. WINDS ARE
EXPECTED TO ALSO BE QUITE STRONG TONIGHT ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE
MOUNTAINS...AND IN THE FOOTHILLS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

STRONG WINDS AND SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY ACROSS THE
MOUNTAINS...BUT SHOULD COME TO AN END BY SUNDAY EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

LANE

Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Polk

When
January 22, 10:00 PM EST to January 23, 10:00 AM EST
Where
Polk forecast zone
Measured
50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER

High Wind, Rutherford

When
January 22, 10:00 PM EST to January 23, 10:00 AM EST
Where
Rutherford forecast zone
Measured
50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER

What these are

High Wind
Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in North Carolina in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, January 2005

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5435536, 5435537.