A pre-frontal trough was present across western North Carolina amid a warm and moist airmass. A cold front moved southeast into the northern Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley, and the mid-south toward the morning of the 21st.
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A pre-frontal trough was present across western North Carolina amid a warm and moist airmass. A cold front moved southeast into the northern Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley, and the mid-south toward the morning of the 21st. Ahead of these surface boundaries, scattered showers and storms developed over southern North Carolina in the evening, from the southern Piedmont, eastward across the Sandhills and southern Coastal Plain. Some of the storms over Stanly and Moore Counties produced tree and power line damage.
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 159 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:49 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Multiple trees were reported down near the intersection of South Main St and Aquadale Rd in Oakboro.
A tree fell on power lines, causing power outages near the intersection of Ray Bud Rd and Old Aquadale Rd in Aquadale.
A tree was reported down near the intersection of Putnam Church Rd and Putnam Glendon Rd in Putnam.
A tree was reported down near the intersection of Putnam Glendon Rd and Glendon Carthage Rd in the town of Glendon.
Lightning struck a power line along North McNeill Street.
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