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Marine Thunderstorm Wind — Croatan and Roanoke Sounds, Atlantic South

2023-12-11 · near Hatteras, Croatan and Roanoke Sounds, Atlantic South

38 MG

Magnitude

Event narrative

Wind gust was measured on a personal weather station via WeatherFlow. Location is in the Croatan Sound 2 miles south of Manteo.

Wider weather episode

A strong cold moved eastwards across Eastern North Carolina overnight on Sunday December 10th into the morning hours on Monday December 11th. Out ahead and along this frontal boundary scattered thunderstorms developed with a few of these storms becoming strong to severe in nature producing damaging winds gusts across all the inland rivers and sounds as well as the coastal waters.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (35.8682, -75.6644)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1152768. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.