A persistent upper low over the Tennessee Valley helped to maintain strong easterly winds into the region, along with bouts of moderate to heavy rainfall totaling one to three inches over north central North Carolina and the Foothills. These totals occurred soon after very heavy rain concluded the month of September across a similar location.
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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 persistent upper low over the Tennessee Valley helped to maintain strong easterly winds into the region, along with bouts of moderate to heavy rainfall totaling one to three inches over north central North Carolina and the Foothills. These totals occurred soon after very heavy rain concluded the month of September across a similar location. With a saturated soil, wind gusts of only 25 to 35 mph were enough to bring a large number of trees down across parts of this region.
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 Oct 1, 8:05 PM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
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8 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds combined with saturated grounded allowed for trees to be blown down in the county, with the greatest concentration across the northern parts. Damage values are estimated.
Strong winds combined with saturated ground allowed for dozens of trees to be blown down across the county. Damage values are estimated.
Strong winds combined with saturated soils allowed for ten trees to be blown down. Damage values are estimated.
Strong winds combined with saturated ground allowed for trees to be blown down across all portions of the county. Damage values are estimated.
Strong winds and saturated ground allowed for a few trees to be blown down. Damage values are estimated.
Strong winds combined with saturated ground allowed for trees to be blown down county-wide in a scattered nature on Saturday with one to two trees blown down on Sunday. Damage values are estimated.
Strong winds and saturated ground allowed for some trees to be blown down across the county. Power outages occurred for fifty customers when a tree fell on power lines in Blowing Rock. Damage values are estimated.
Strong winds and saturated ground allowed for two trees to be blown down in the county - one across Grassy Creek Road, the other across Campbell Road. Damage values are estimated.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, October 2015
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: 606025, 606021, 606020, 606027, 606029, 606023, 606028, 606030.