Convection developed during the day and was enhanced by the sea breeze. The storms intensified briefly to severe limits before weakening near the coast late in the evening.
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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 ILM wrote it up.
Convection developed during the day and was enhanced by the sea breeze. The storms intensified briefly to severe limits before weakening near the coast late in the evening.
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:01 UTC.
1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was downed and blocked Barney Coe rd. in Kelly, NC. Most likely due to lightning strike. Time estimated based on radar and NLDN data.
Tree down blocking Highway 87 east near the intersection with Airport Rd. in Council, NC. Time estimated based on radar.
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, July 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: 1108765, 1108766.