Strong Wind in Wake, North Carolina

Strong Wind October 29, 2020 · Wake, North Carolina

56 mph

Measured gust (49 kt)

$1.5M

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Frequent wind gusts of 40 to 56 mph resulted in scattered to numerous trees and power lines down across Wake County, including some on homes. Numerous customers lost power in Wake County as a result of the strong winds.

The wider storm

Hurricane Zeta made landfall along the Louisiana coast during the afternoon of October 28th and quickly lift off to the north and northeast, moving across the southern Appalachians and southern Mid-Atlantic region on October 29th while transitioning to a extra-tropical cyclone. This resulted in numerous reports of wind damage across the area, especially across the northern Piedmont of central North Carolina.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 926928. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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