Thunderstorm Wind — Caldwell, North Carolina

2025-06-19 · near Valmead, Caldwell, North Carolina

Event narrative

County comms reported a few trees blown down along Indian Grave Rd. Utility company reported a tree down on power lines and causing an outage closer to Lenoir.

Wider weather episode

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms developed across the North Carolina Piedmont and foothills throughout the afternoon into the evening. A few of the storms produced brief damaging wind gusts. Slow storm movement resulted in torrential rainfall rates which led to flash flooding in Caldwell County.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1277817. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.