Thunderstorm Wind, Henderson
- When
- June 26, 3:37 PM EST
- Where
- Henderson County, 0.56 mi E of Rugby
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- 911 Call Center
- Coordinates
- 35.370, -82.520
County comms reported trees blown down on Rugby Rd.
Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 26, 2015
Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms developed across western North Carolina during the late afternoon and evening. A few of the storms produced brief severe weather, mainly over the Piedmont.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $7,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms developed across western North Carolina during the late afternoon and evening. A few of the storms produced brief severe weather, mainly over the Piedmont.
What forecasters said that day
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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 26, 2:09 PM EST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:09 PM EST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
309 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015
.SYNOPSIS...
THE RECENT PERIOD OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES COMES TO AN END AS A
COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION TONIGHT. THE COLD FRONT MOVES
THROUGH SATURDAY...BRINGING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO
THE REGION. THE COLD FRONT MOVES EAST OF THE REGION BY SUNDAY
LEAVING BEHIND COOLER AND DRIER CONDITIONS. A WEAK FRONT WILL
APPROACH BY MID WEEK AND LINGER NEAR THE REGION THROUGH THE END OF
THE PERIOD...RETURNING TEMPERATURES TO SEASONAL NORMS AND
MAINTAINING A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION EACH DAY.
&&
.NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/...
THERE ARE SEVERAL POTENTIAL AREAS FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. LATE
THIS AFTERNOON...PULSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME RISK FOR MICROBURSTS
ARE POSSIBLE OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA DUE TO MODERATELY
STRONG INSTABILITY WITH LI TO -6...WEAKENING CAPPING...AND SOME
FORCING FROM AN WEAK UPPER LEVEL WAVE PASSING THROUGH THE REGION.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE OVER HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS...THOUGH
THE CAP IS STRONGER AND FORCING IS WEAKER IN THIS AREA. SHOULD
STORMS INITIATE OVER HIGHER TERRAIN...MORE SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE
DUE TO STRONGER DEEP LAYER SHEAR FROM FLOW ALOFT WITH EFFECTIVE BULK
SHEAR TO 40KTS. FOLLOWING TONIGHTS ACTIVITY...WHICH MODELS TRAIL
OFF AROUND 6Z...A MAJOR COLD WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA AROUND
SATURDAY AFTERNOON CARRYING WITH IT A HIGH PROBABILITY FOR
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE. LATEST NAM TIMING HAS FRONT
ENTERING THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CWA AROUND 11AM ON SATURDAY...AND
EXITING SOUTHEAST AROUND 6PM. TOTAL RAINFALL THROUGH SATURDAY IS
AROUND 3/4 OF AN INCH...THOUGH AMOUNTS WILL BE HIGHLY VARIABLE FROM
PLACE TO PLACE.
&&
.SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/...
AT 230 PM EDT FRIDAY...THE COLD FRONT SCHEDULED TO PASS THROUGH OUR
FORECAST AREA (FA)SATURDAY EVENING IS JUST A TAD SLOWER...SUGGESTED
BY SUITE OF MODEL GUIDANCE. AS A RESULT...WE HELD ONTO HIGHER POPS
IN THE SC UPSTATE PIEDMONT AREA...AND WESTERN NC PIEDMONT LOCATIONS
SATURDAY EVENING. AS AN UPSHOT...SHORT TERM CONVECTIVE TRENDS WILL
BE MONITORED FOR THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE WEATHER SLIPPING INTO THE
EARLY EVENING HOURS ACROSS THE AFOREMENTIONED LOCATIONS.
MEANWHILE TRENDS FURTHER NORTH AND WEST SHOULD BE FOR A DIMINISHING
OR ENDING.
A BUBBLE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN SETTLE ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY
WITH QUIET WEATHER ON TAP.
A HIGHLY AMPLIFIED PATTERN FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR...WITH A STRONG
RIDGE IN THE WEST AND TROFFING IN THE EAST...WILL CONTINUE INTO THE
START OF THE NEW WORK WEEK. ANOTHER PACKET OF ENERGY IN THE HIGHER
REACHES OF THE ATMOSPHERE SHOULD BE DROPPING SEWED FROM THE WESTERN
GREAT LAKES MONDAY. THIS WILL LIKELY INDUCE A BACKING SURFACE TO H85
FLOW DOWNSTREAM... WITH A WARM AIR ADVECTION (WAA) PATTERN
COMMENCING ACROSS OUR NC MOUNTAINS. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME TIMING
DIFFERENCE WITH RESPECT TO THE POTENTIAL ONSET OF PRECIPITATION
CHANCES...WE WILL FOLLOW PREVIOUS CONTINUITY AND KEEP SMALL POPS
LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON...MAINLY NEAR THE TN/NC STATE LINE.
PROBABLY THE BIGGER STORY FOR THIS PART OF THE FORECAST CYCLE WILL
BE THAT TEMPERATURES WILL BE KNOCKED BACK FROM OUR RECENT SPATE OF
HEAT. NEARLY ALL TEMPERATURE MODEL PROFILES SHOW THAT NICELY...AND
WILL FOLLOW THOSE TRENDS.
&&
.LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/...
AT 300 PM EDT FRIDAY...THE EXTENDED PERIOD BEGINS MONDAY NIGHT WITH
THE REGION UNDERNEATH A BROAD MID-LEVEL TROUGH WHILE A DEEP RIDGE
PERSISTS OVER THE WESTERN US. THE MID-LEVEL FLOW DAMPENS SOMEWHAT
THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD WITH THE TROUGH BECOMING FLAT
ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST US BY INDEPENDENCE DAY. EMBEDDED WITHIN THE
MID-LEVEL FLOW WILL BE AT LEAST A FEW NOTABLE SHORTWAVES THAT WILL
PROPAGATE NEAR OR THROUGH THE REGION DURING THE PERIOD. WHILE
GUIDANCE DISAGREES ON THE POTENCY AND TRACK OF THESE SHORTWAVES AS
CAN BE EXPECTED...THE OVERALL PATTERN WILL FAVOR CHANCE POPS THROUGH
THE PERIOD AND NEAR NORMAL HIGH TEMPERATURES.
&&
.AVIATION /19Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
AT KCLT AND ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE HELD OFF THUS FAR
THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER SOME CUMULUS IS DEVELOPING AS SEEN ON THE
VISIBLE SATELLITE...WHICH MAY SIGNAL THE APPROACH OF CONVECTIVE
ACTIVITY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. LOCATION AND TIMING OF THUNDER IS
SOMEWHAT UNCERTAIN DUE TO POORLY DEFINED SURFACE BOUNDARIES AND
FORCING MECHANISMS. CAMS HAVE BEEN INCONSISTENT AS WELL. CURRENTLY
EXPECT SOME PULSE STORM ACTIVITY IN AREAS ON THE PIEDMONT HELPED BY
A WEAK SHORTWAVE IMPULSE TRAVERSING THE AREA...POTENTIALLY MORE
SEVERE ACTIVITY MAY INITIATE IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN IF SOME
CONVECTIVE INHIBITION CAN BE OVERCOME. A BREAK IN SHOWERS IS
EXPECTED AFTER 6Z BEFORE THE APPROACH OF A COLD FRONT SATURDAY
AFTERNOON.
OUTLOOK...A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NW AND PASS THRU
ON SATURDAY. MORNING RESTRICTIONS DUE TO FOG AND/OR STRATUS ARE
POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY WHERE HEAVY RAIN FALLS LATER TODAY...AND IN
THE MOUNTAIN RIVER VALLEYS. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...A MUCH DRIER AND
COOLER AIRMASS WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH
A SECOND COLD FRONT POSSIBLY ARRIVING BY MID-WEEK.
CONFIDENCE TABLE...
19-01Z 01-07Z 07-13Z 13-18Z
KCLT HIGH 100% HIGH 100% HIGH 97% HIGH 100%
KGSP HIGH 100% HIGH 100% HIGH 93% HIGH 100%
KAVL HIGH 100% HIGH 100% HIGH 92% HIGH 98%
KHKY HIGH 100% HIGH 100% HIGH 93% HIGH 94%
KGMU HIGH 100% HIGH 100% HIGH 92% HIGH 100%
KAND HIGH 100% HIGH 100% HIGH 100% HIGH 100%
THE PERCENTAGE REFLECTS THE NUMBER OF GUIDANCE MEMBERS AGREEING
WITH THE SCHEDULED TAF ISSUANCE FLIGHT RULE CATEGORY. COMPLETE HOURLY
EXPERIMENTAL AVIATION FORECAST CONSISTENCY TABLES AND ENSEMBLE FORECASTS
ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: (MUST BE LOWER CASE)
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/GSP/AVIATION_TABLES
&&
.GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.
&&
SYNOPSIS...JMP
NEAR TERM...WJM
SHORT TERM...TS
LONG TERM...JMP
AVIATION...WJMHazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 3:23 PM EST, 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 423 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-271100- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA- ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE- MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS- GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS- PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 423 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. MEANWHILE...ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ..SATURDAY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. ..SUNDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ..MONDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ..TUESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ..WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ..THURSDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. STUREY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:55 PM EST, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
355 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015
NCZ065-262100-
HENDERSON NC-
355 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF HENDERSON COUNTY
UNTIL 500 PM EDT...
AT 355 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES NORTHWEST OF HENDERSONVILLE...OR NEAR MILLS RIVER...MOVING EAST
AT 15 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HENDERSONVILLE...MILLS RIVER...FLETCHER...FLAT ROCK...ETOWAH...
MOUNTAIN HOME...LAUREL PARK...B.R. PARKWAY...MOUNT PISGAH TO THE NC
ARBORETUM...BAT CAVE AND ASHEVILLE AIRPORT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY FLOOD AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE...SUCH AS
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE
RAPIDLY. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.
&&
LAT...LON 3546 8227 3544 8228 3539 8226 3529 8235
3519 8236 3519 8238 3521 8239 3519 8242
3526 8262 3530 8262 3537 8269 3546 8267
3544 8262 3544 8255 3542 8254 3545 8253
3545 8247 3547 8242 3546 8237 3548 8237
TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 277DEG 11KT 3537 8260
CDGSpecial weather statement, Jun 26, 3:14 PM EST, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 414 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 NCZ064-SCZ001>003-005-262100- TRANSYLVANIA NC-GREATER PICKENS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC- 414 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA...NORTHEASTERN OCONEE...NORTHERN PICKENS AND NORTHWESTERN GREENVILLE COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT... AT 414 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PICKENS...OR NEAR GORGES STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PICKENS...KEOWEE TOXAWAY STATE PARK...TABLE ROCK STATE PARK...DEVILS FORK STATE PARK...JOCASSEE GORGES...LAKE JOCASSEE...JONES GAP STATE PARK...CAESARS HEAD STATE PARK...GORGES STATE PARK AND LAKE KEOWEE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY FLOOD AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE...SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE RAPIDLY. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. && LAT...LON 3495 8302 3512 8299 3513 8253 3486 8257 TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 276DEG 16KT 3503 8292 CDG
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:36 UTC.
Event by event
6 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Davie
- When
- June 26, 4:01 PM EST
- Where
- Davie County, 2.15 mi NNW of Mocksville Arpk Arpt
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- 911 Call Center
- Coordinates
- 35.950, -80.460
County comms reported trees blown down on power lines in the Bixby community.
Thunderstorm Wind, Alexander
- When
- June 26, 4:46 PM EST
- Where
- Alexander County, 0.69 mi S of Hiddenite
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- 911 Call Center
- Coordinates
- 35.890, -81.080
FD reported several power lines blown down near Hiddenite.
Thunderstorm Wind, Iredell
- When
- June 26, 5:38 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, 1.38 mi N of Statesville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 35.800, -80.900
Spotter reported multiple trees blown down on Wilkesboro Highway, with one tree on a vehicle.
Thunderstorm Wind, Mecklenburg
- When
- June 26, 8:05 PM EST
- Where
- Mecklenburg County, 3.51 mi SE of Pineville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Social Media
- Coordinates
- 35.050, -80.850
Public reported large limbs blown down in the Ballantyne area via social media.
Thunderstorm Wind, Mecklenburg
- When
- June 26, 8:54 PM EST
- Where
- Mecklenburg County, Charlotte
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- Social Media
- Coordinates
- 35.230, -80.850
Social media reports of at least two trees blown down in the Charlotte area, with one tree falling on a home and damaging siding.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Indiana, June 26 to 27, 2015
- Excessive Heat in Oregon, June 26 to 28, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 26 to 27, 2015
- Excessive Heat in Washington, June 26 to 28, 2015
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 26, 2015
- Flooding in Ohio, June 26 to 30, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 26, 2015
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in West Virginia, June 26, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, June 26 to 27, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 26, 2015
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Mississippi, June 26 to 27, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kentucky, June 26, 2015
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2015
Sources
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: 590661, 590671, 590666, 590667, 590669, 590670.