Thunderstorm Wind in Bertie County, North Carolina

Thunderstorm Wind May 6, 2022 · Bertie County, North Carolina

58 mph

Estimated gust (50 kt)

$24K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Agricultural storage building was knocked down. An additional outbuilding was damaged with roofing blown off. Tree limbs were blown off with one tree knocked over.

The wider storm

An area of low pressure tracked from the Mississippi Valley into the Ohio valley on May 6 with the associated warm front lifting north from South Carolina towards the Virginia/North Carolina border. The main low occluded during the day with a secondary low forming in western North Carolina during the evening. Scattered storms developed across central North Carolina during the afternoon, moving northeast into southeast Virginia while interacting with the warm front. A second round of storms developed in association with the secondary surface low late in the afternoon and into the evening in western North Carolina, tracking into southern and central Virginia during the evening.

Began near Roxobel (36.2000, -77.2400).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1032627. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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