North Carolina, 2005

Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 27, 2005

July 27, 2005 · NWS RNK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Damaging thunderstorm winds downed trees in the area around Courtney.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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What happened

The episode as NWS RNK wrote it up.

Damaging thunderstorm winds downed trees in the area around Courtney.

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 Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 27, 6:52 PM EST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 6:52 PM EST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
752 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

.UPDATE (REST OF TONIGHT)...

DID QUICK UPDATE AROUND 7PM MAINLY TO REMOVE HEAT ADVISORY
HEADLINES...BUT ADJUSTED SOME OVERNIGHT POPS A BIT AS WELL. WILL
LIKELY NEED ANOTHER UPDATE LATER THIS EVENING AS CONVECTION
CONTINUES TO DIMINISH...WHICH IS EXPECTED.

&&

.AVIATION...

LEFT A FEW MORE HOURS OF SHWR AND TSTM ACTIVITY IN THE FAR
EAST...SHWRS MAINLY AT BLF...BUT AS FRONT APPROACHES STILL A SLIM CHC
OF SOME THUNDER UP AT LWB UNTIL LATE THIS EVE. MVFR TO IFR VSBYS
WITH SOME FOG SINCE MOST LOCATIONS SEEING EARLY EVENING RAIN. NOT
EXPECTING MUCH CLEARING OF MID DECK SO DONT EXPECT DENSE
FOG...EXCEPT AT BLF AND LWB. FRONT HANGING UP JUST TO OUR WEST FOR
THURS...SO CAN EXPECT A REPEAT OF CONVECTION...LIKELY AN EARLIER
START THOUGH.

&&

.PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...
(ISSUED 255 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005)

SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)...
LAST DAY OF SIGNIFICANT HEAT TODAY AS UNSEASONABLY STRONG COLD FRONT
PUSHES INTO THE REGION.  BAND OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS FORMING ALONG THE
FRONT JUST TO OUR WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON.  BULK OF TSTMS EXPECTED
TO DIMINISH ON THE WESTERN SLOPES LATER THIS EVENING AND DEVELOP IN
SHARPENING LEE TROF JUST EAST OF THE FCST AREA. THIS LEE TROF WILL
REMAIN STATIONARY TO OUR SOUTHEAST OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND BE
A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE REGIONS WX AS WAVES OF LOW PRESSURE BRING
PERIODS OF RAIN ALONG AND TO THE WEST OF THE BOUNDARY THROUGH
MONDAY.

LONG TERM (THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...
BEST CHCS OF RAIN AT THIS TIME APPEAR TO BE LATE THURSDAY INTO
FRIDAY AS FIRST SIGNIFICANT WAVE RIDES UP THE FRONT. FRONT AND
BEST SPPT FOR RAIN GETS SUPRESSED TO THE SOUTH BEHIND THE WAVE FRI
NGT AND SATURDAY...THEN SECOND WAVE SLATED FOR SUNDAY AND SUNDAY
NIGHT WILL LIKELY BRING RAIN BACK INTO THE NW PORTION OF THE FCST
AREA. MOST OF THE FCST AREA WILL REMAIN IN COOL...STABLE THRU THE
WEEKEND. FAR SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE FCST AREA WILL BE MOST
LIKELY TO SEE CONVECTION AND HEAVIER RAIN. THIS LAST WAVE WILL
EXIT EARLY IN THE WEEK USHERING IN DRIER AIR AND MORE TYPICAL
SUMMERTIME CHCS OF TSTMS INTO MIDWEEK.

CHCS OF RAIN WILL DEPEND HIGHLY ON THE MEANDERINGS OF THE FRONT AND
HOW MUCH THE WAVES WILL AFFECT ITS MOVEMENT.  BUT AT THIS TIME IT
LKS LIKE AREA EAST OF THE MTNS COULD RECEIVE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF
RAIN FOR THE NEXT 4-5 DAYS.

AVIATION...
SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED FROM CENTRAL TENNESSEE NORTHEAST
THROUGH WEST VIRGINIA AND INTO WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA IN ADVANCE OF
AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. BY THE LATE AFTERNOON...THIS BROKEN
LINE OF STORMS SHOULD REACH SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. A LEE TROUGH
WAS STILL OVER THE PIEMONTS OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA.
CONVECTION ALONG THAT FEATURE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS
EVENING IS ALSO EXPECTED. AS THE FRONT SETTLES OVER OUR REGION
TONIGHT...MVFR CEILINGS WILL ENTER INTO REGION WEST OF THE BLUE
RIDGE ALONG WITH MVFR LIGHT FOG. DURING THE DAY THURSDAY
CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO REFIRE ALONG THE STALLED FRONT BY MID-
DAY.

&&

.RNK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
VA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
WV...NONE.
&&

02/02
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 2:33 AM EST, 17 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
333 AM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

NCZ004>006-020-VAZ022-032>035-043>047-058-059-280745-
STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-YADKIN-ROANOKE-PATRICK-FRANKLIN-BEDFORD-
AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM-HALIFAX-
CHARLOTTE-
333 AM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...CENTRAL
VIRGINIA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUES IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY. TEMPERATURES
WILL AGAIN CLIMB WELL INTO THE 90S WITH SOME SPOTS TOPPING 100
DEGREES. THIS WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO 110 DEGREES.

ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE DAMAGING WINDS MAY
OCCUR THIS EVENING INTO EARLY TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

NCZ003-019-VAZ023-024-280745-
SURRY-WILKES-BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-
333 AM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST NORTH
CAROLINA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND NORTH CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THE COMBINATION OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL CAUSE HEAT INDICES TO
RISE TO AROUND 100 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS LATE
THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>020-WVZ042>045-280745-
ASHE-ALLEGHANY-WATAUGA-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI-
MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-BATH-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-
GREENBRIER-
333 AM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA AND
SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL AGAIN CAUSE HEAT INDICES TO RISE TO BETWEEN
95 AND 100 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED DAMAGING WINDS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 6:45 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
745 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

VAZ033-034-043>047-280045-
APPOMATTOX-BEDFORD-BUCKINGHAM-CAMPBELL-FRANKLIN-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-
745 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THROUGH 900 PM...
FROM THE PIEDMONT...WEST TOWARD THE FOOTHILLS. THE STRONGER STORMS
WILL AFFECT LOCATIONS EAST OF HIGHWAY 29 BETWEEN LYNCHBURG AND
ALTAVISTA. TOWNS THAT CAN EXPECT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND WINDS GUSTING
TO 40 MPH INCLUDE...APPOMATTOX...SPRING MILLS AND BROOKNEAL.
ANOTHER STRONG STORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN SECTIONS OF HENRY COUNTY...
INCLUDING COLLINSVILLE...FIELDALE AND FIGSBORO.

STAY INDOORS IF A STORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA...AND AVOID USING
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. ALSO STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

05
Local storm report, Jul 27, 7:43 PM EST, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
843 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BROOKNEAL               37.05N 78.97W
07/27/2005                   CAMPBELL           VA   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

&&

JW
Local storm report, Jul 27, 7:44 PM EST, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
844 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PENHOOK                 36.98N 79.63W
07/27/2005                   FRANKLIN           VA   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

&&

JW
Local storm report, Jul 27, 7:45 PM EST, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
845 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0715 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PITTSVILLE              36.98N 79.47W
07/27/2005                   PITTSYLVANIA       VA   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

&&

JW
Local storm report, Jul 27, 7:54 PM EST, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
854 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 W BASTIAN             37.15N 81.24W
07/27/2005                   BLAND              VA   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            TREES DOWN ON GRAPEFIELD ROAD NEAR GOLF COURSE

&&

SK
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 8:05 PM EST, 10 minutes before
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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Yadkin

When
July 27, 8:15 PM EST
Where
Yadkin County, Courtney
Measured
50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
36.067, -80.633

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.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5467491.