Thunderstorm Wind — Stanly, North Carolina

2023-01-12 · near New London, Stanly, North Carolina

Event narrative

Trees were reported down on Church Street.

Wider weather episode

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a prefrontal trough across the southern Appalachians and Carolinas during the afternoon into the evening in a weakly unstable airmass. However, strengthening southerly low level flow of 50kts along with strong flow aloft resulted in strong deep layer shear, helping to organize the convection into clusters/lines of storms. Some of the storms in the clusters produced damaging winds as they moved across the Piedmont of central North Carolina.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1077736. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.