A weak upper level disturbance moving across a moist and moderately unstable airmass in place across central North Carolina resulted in a couple of severe storms that produced severe thunderstorm winds in Vance and Orange Counties.
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The episode as NWS RAH wrote it up.
A weak upper level disturbance moving across a moist and moderately unstable airmass in place across central North Carolina resulted in a couple of severe storms that produced severe thunderstorm winds in Vance and Orange Counties.
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:41 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A couple of trees were blown down along a swath extending from near Hillsborough to Chapel Hill.
Several trees were blown down along a swath extending from Highway 39 to just east of Warrenton.
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