1 lightning, 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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 2:51 PM EST, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 351 PM EDT TUE JUN 6 2006 .SHORT TERM /TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... SATELLITE/RADAR LOOPS TELL THE STORY THIS AFTERNOON AS DISTINCT MID-LEVEL SPIN IS EVIDENT ON THE WATER VAPOR IMAGERY WHILE WSR-88D LOOPS TELL THE STORY AT THE SURFACE. THE CWA EXPERIENCING SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEFORMATION ZONE OF THIS FEATURE. WILL WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO ADDRESS EVENING POPS FOR THESE AREAS BASED ON TRENDS. WILL ALSO ADD FOG TO ZONES IN THESE AREAS FOR THE MORNING HOURS. MID-LEVEL LOW GETS KICKED OUT WED. AND FLOW BACKS BRIEFLY. AT THE SURFACE...WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN ACROSS THE AREA. ANOTHER SHORT-WAVE MOVES THROUGH THE AREA LATE THURSDAY RIDING THE NORTHWEST FLOW ONCE AGAIN. NAM AND GFS DIFFER SOMEWHAT IN DEPICTIONS AS THE GFS HAS TWO SEPARATE FEATURES...ONE LATE THURSDAY AND A MORE SIGNIFICANT SHORT-WAVE EARLY FRIDAY. THE NAM HAS ONE DISTINCT SYSTEM LATE THURSDAY. AT THIS POINT...IT MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN PREFERENCE AS BOTH DEPICTIONS WARRANT LOW CHANCE POPS...WITH THE HIGHER VALUES TO THE NORTH FOR THURSDAY PM. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... MADE FEW CHANGES TO THE LONG RANGE FORECAST...BUT THE THEME REMAINS THE SAME...BASICALLY DRY WITH A WARMING TREND. TEMPERATURES TREND FROM NEAR CLIMATOLOGY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD TO A FEW DEGREES ABOVE BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. && .AVIATION... CONVECTION AROUND THE WEST SIDE OF CUTOFF UPPER LOW TO MAINLY AFFECT ILM AND CRE BEFORE QUICKLY DISSIPATING EITHER SIDE (MORE LIKELY JUST BEFORE) SUNSET. GUIDANCE SUGGESTING THAT VFR REMAINS FOR THE REST OF THE PD BUT MVFR FOG TOUGH TO RULE OUT ESP WHERE IT RAINS. BETTER FOG FCST WILL BE POSSIBLE NEXT PACKAGE AFTER THIS DETERMINATION CAN BE MADE. && .MARINE... BROAD OFFSHORE LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL MOVE NORTH OVERNIGHT WHILE STRENGTHENING AS WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST. LATEST GFS HAS TROUGHING DEVELOPING OVER THE EASTERN SEABOARD AND COASTAL WATERS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...WITH WEAK HIGH PRESSURE RETURNING FOR SUNDAY. BASED EXTENDED ON HPC DATA. WINDS AND SEAS IN SHORT TERM WILL BE FAIRLY BENIGN EXCEPT IN THE VICINITY OF ANY CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. && .ILM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SHORT TERM...SHK LONG TERM...SHK AVIATION...MBB MARINE...REK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 411 PM EDT TUE JUN 6 2006 AMZ250-252-254-256-NCZ087-096-097-099>101-SCZ017-023-024-032>034- 039-046-071200- SURF CITY TO CAPE FEAR NC OUT 20 NM- CAPE FEAR NC TO LITTLE RIVER INLET SC OUT 20 NM- LITTLE RIVER INLET TO MURRELLS INLET SC OUT 20 NM- MURRELLS INLET TO SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SC OUT 20 NM-ROBESON-BLADEN- PENDER-COLUMBUS-BRUNSWICK-NEW HANOVER-MARLBORO-DARLINGTON-DILLON- FLORENCE-MARION-HORRY-WILLIAMSBURG-GEORGETOWN- 411 PM EDT TUE JUN 6 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED THE AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THROUGH THIS EVENING. 15
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
323 PM EDT TUE JUN 06 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0321 PM HAIL WILMINGTON 34.21N 77.91W
06/06/2006 E0.88 INCH NEW HANOVER NC AMATEUR RADIO
NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN KINGS GRANT
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LOEWENTHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
347 PM EDT TUE JUN 06 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0300 PM HAIL OAK ISLAND 33.92N 78.17W
06/06/2006 E1.00 INCH BRUNSWICK NC AIRPLANE PILOT
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LOEWENTHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
355 PM EDT TUE JUN 06 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0354 PM HAIL WATHA 34.64N 77.96W
06/06/2006 E0.75 INCH PENDER NC PUBLIC
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LOEWENTHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
452 PM EDT TUE JUN 06 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0450 PM HAIL 6 NW KELLY 34.53N 78.39W
06/06/2006 E0.75 INCH BLADEN NC PUBLIC
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LOEWENTHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
533 PM EDT TUE JUN 06 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0530 PM HAIL 5 S WHITEVILLE 34.26N 78.70W
06/06/2006 E0.88 INCH COLUMBUS NC EMERGENCY MNGR
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL ON HWY 701.
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LOEWENTHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
541 PM EDT TUE JUN 06 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0357 PM HAIL 2 W SURF CITY 34.42N 77.59W
06/06/2006 E0.75 INCH PENDER NC PUBLIC
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LOEWENTHThe Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:59 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused a fire that damaged the attic and roof of a vacant brick home on Sasspan Rd.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2006
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: 5525234.