Isolated to scattered storms developed across central North Carolina in strengthening southerly flow in advance of a strong cold front. A couple of the storms became severe across the Northern Piedmont and produce large hail and damaging winds.
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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.
Isolated to scattered storms developed across central North Carolina in strengthening southerly flow in advance of a strong cold front. A couple of the storms became severe across the Northern Piedmont and produce large hail and damaging winds.
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 Apr 27, 11:55 AM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 435 AM EDT WED APR 27 2011 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-280845- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE- JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON- RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 435 AM EDT WED APR 27 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH HIGHEST CHANCES IN THE WESTERN PIEDMONT. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT FROM DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY EVENING...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES EAST ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees and power lines were reported down on Saint Mary's Road.
Penny sized hail was reported at the Piedmont Triad International Airport.
Quarter sized hail was reported near Kernersville, North Carolina.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, April 2011
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 302974, 302973, 302970, 302971, 302966, 302967.