Scattered thunderstorms and storm clusters developed across western North Carolina during the late afternoon. A couple of storms produced brief damaging wind gusts in the northern Piedmont.
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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 GSP wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms and storm clusters developed across western North Carolina during the late afternoon. A couple of storms produced brief damaging wind gusts in the northern Piedmont.
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:25 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Ham radio operator reported trees blown down at Shiloh Rd and Salisbury Highway.
County comms reported a tree blown down on a vehicle on Conover Blvd West. Fire dept reported a tree down on and blocking Highway 10.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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