The passage of a strong cold front across northwest North Carolina brought strong and gusty winds to the higher terrain through the morning of January 26, 2023. Steep pressure rises behind the front as well as cold air advection contributed to gusts over 50 mph.
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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.
The passage of a strong cold front across northwest North Carolina brought strong and gusty winds to the higher terrain through the morning of January 26, 2023. Steep pressure rises behind the front as well as cold air advection contributed to gusts over 50 mph.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A maximum gust of 63 mph was measured by a personal weather station near Blowing Rock.
A maximum wind gust of 63 MPH was measured by a personal weather station near Baldwin.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, January 2023
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: 1073576, 1073573.