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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 RNK wrote it up.
A deep, full-latitude upper trough was sweeping from the central U.S. into the eastern U.S. during this period. As with the event exactly one week before, a warm, moist air mass was present across the region in advance of this front. Once again, a strong line of thunderstorms, or quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) formed in advance of the cold front associated with the upper low, moving through the region during peak heating time, namely afternoon and early evening. Some discrete strong cells were also noted in advance of the main thunderstorm line, but many of these managed to remain just east or south of the Blacksburg County Warning Area (CWA). As with the event on April 12th, the Piedmont region of Southside Virginia and north central North Carolina was the hardest hit. Dozens to hundreds of trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds gusts from Stokes county on the west end to Caswell county on the east end.
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 Apr 19, 1:19 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 546 AM EDT FRI APR 19 2013 NCZ003>006-019-020-VAZ032>035-043>047-058-059-201000- SURRY-STOKES-ROCKINGHAM-CASWELL-WILKES-YADKIN-PATRICK-FRANKLIN- BEDFORD-AMHERST-HENRY-PITTSYLVANIA-CAMPBELL-APPOMATTOX-BUCKINGHAM- HALIFAX-CHARLOTTE- 546 AM EDT FRI APR 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER MAY OCCUR FROM DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE GREATEST CONCERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA AND INTO THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ001-002-018-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-WVZ042>045-201000- ASHE-ALLEGHANY NC-WATAUGA-TAZEWELL-SMYTH-BLAND-GILES-WYTHE-PULASKI- MONTGOMERY-GRAYSON-CARROLL-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-ROANOKE- BOTETOURT-ROCKBRIDGE-MERCER-SUMMERS-MONROE-GREENBRIER- 546 AM EDT FRI APR 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. COLD FRONT WILL BRING STRONG WIND GUSTS TO THE AREA TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH STRONGER WIND GUSTS TOO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 223 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2013 NCZ003-004-019-020-VAZ016-017-032-191900- STOKES NC-YADKIN NC-SURRY NC-WILKES NC-PATRICK VA-CARROLL VA- FLOYD VA- 223 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR... NORTHWESTERN STOKES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... YADKIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... SURRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... EASTERN WILKES COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA... PATRICK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... SOUTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 220 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DOBSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MOUNT AIRY... MOUNTAIN PARK... ELKIN... YADKINVILLE... DOBSON... BOTTOM... FRANCISCO... PILOT MOUNTAIN... CANA... BOONVILLE... STUART... EAST BEND... RONDA... WOOLWINE... FANCY GAP... WESTFIELD... STATE ROAD... LONE HICKORY... COURTNEY... SHACKTOWN... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PROLONGED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE WATER TO FLOW OVER THE ROADWAY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE WHERE THE ROAD HAS BECOME FLOODED. && LAT...LON 3605 8114 3681 8064 3679 8010 3606 8062 TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 221DEG 45KT 3643 8075
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:25 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind, 1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Surry County 911 Center reported that power lines were down near the intersection of Red Brush Road and Fannie Simmons Road southeast of Bottom.
North Carolina Broadcast Media reported that gradient wind gusts of 60 mph were observed at Ennice.
The Stokes County Emergency Manager reported that there were considerable damage to trees in and around the town of Kind. The Stokes County 911 Center reported that numerous trees and large tree limbs were down in and around the town of King. A tree was down on a building near Main Street causing $70,000 in damage alone to the structure and vehicles parked inside. Trees and/or large branches were also down on West Street, Spruce Street, and on Redwood Bend Road just outside of town. In Walnut Cove, further east, a tree was blown down on a church as reported by local broadcast media.
A trained storm spotter reported that several large trees were down at the intersection of North Carolina Highways 150 and 158 and two more large trees were down approximately five miles west-southwest of Yanceville.
The Caswell County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down around Cherry Grove or just east of Camp Springs.
The Caswell County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down on Country Home Road just southeast of Providence and a few more trees were down on Blanch Road just east of Providence.
Winston-Salem Broadcast Media reported that several trees were down in the Eden area, including one which fell on and caused damage to a trailer home.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, April 2013
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: 447993, 447994, 448005, 448018, 448013, 448020, 448380.