Organized line segments and supercells produced widespread thunderstorm wind damage across central North Carolina as a strong upper shortwave trough and associated 50 to 60 knot mid-level jet streak spread into the area.
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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 episode as NWS RAH wrote it up.
Organized line segments and supercells produced widespread thunderstorm wind damage across central North Carolina as a strong upper shortwave trough and associated 50 to 60 knot mid-level jet streak spread into the area.
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 Jul 17, 12:34 PM EST, 33 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:09 UTC.
22 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees were blown down and snapped along a one mile stretch along Highway 501 at Red Mountain Road to the intersection of Moores Mill Road.
Penny to quarter size hail was reported in downtown Littleton.
Several trees were blown down along Highway 581 near Spring Hope.
One tree was blown down onto Jaycross Road.
One tree was blown down on Reeses Store Road at Highway 125.
One tree was blown down on Highway 561 north.
One tree was blown down on Jones Street in downtown Raleigh.
Two twenty-foot trees were uprooted at Edenton and McDowell Streets.
One tree was blown down at the intersection of Hillsborough Street and Pullen Road.
Numerous trees snapped along Highway 30 between Richardson Road and Corinth Holders Fire Station.
Penny-size hail was reported at NC Highway 42 and Lamm Road.
A semi-trailor was blown over in the parking lot of Cagle Furniture Company.
Several trees were blown down in the Anderson Creek community. One tree fell onto a |home along Bethel Baptist Road.
A snapped tree was blocking a portion of Interstate 95 near Dunn.
One tree was uprooted along Allens Crossroad Road.
A large tree was uprooted in downtown Saratoga.
Several trees were blown down down onto several houses in Anderson Creek, Bunn Level and Hays Road.
One tree was blown down on Linden Road.
One tree was blown down along Nor Am Road near Nahunta.
One tree was blown down along Slocomb Road.
Numerous trees down along Ramsey Road.
One tree was blown down along Hicksboro Road at the intersection of Rice Road.
Numerous trees were blown down between Interstate 85 and Highway 1 in the Ridgeway community. Several storage buildings on an area farm suffered major damage.
One tree was blown down along Highway 401 south of Warrenton.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2009
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: 187529, 187530, 187531, 187532, 187533, 187534, 187535, 187538, 187540, 187543, 187544, 187545, 187666, 187667, 187672, 187689, 190788, 187690, 187691, 187692, 187693, 187694, 187696, 187697.