Cluster of strong to severe thunderstorms moved through southwest North Carolina in a marginally supportive environment during the evening hours, producing damaging wind gusts.
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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 MRX wrote it up.
Cluster of strong to severe thunderstorms moved through southwest North Carolina in a marginally supportive environment during the evening hours, producing damaging wind gusts.
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 Morristown, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 6:55 PM EST, 23 hours 11 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:06 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
One tree felled by severe thunderstorm wind gusts along Owl Creek Rd.
One tree downed by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts along Hendrix Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2026Every state in 2026This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2026
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: 1350411, 1350413.