Storms bring down trees and 56 mph gusts across Guilford County
Trees fell at Gatewood Ave. and E Wendover Ave. as a 56 mph gust hit Greensboro, and Duke Energy cut Triad outages to fewer than 8,000 by Tuesday evening.
Trees came down at Gatewood Ave. and E Wendover Ave. in east Greensboro as severe thunderstorms pushed across Guilford County on June 22, with a 56 mph gust recorded at Piedmont Triad International Airport and warnings for winds up to 60 mph. The storm cells moved from west to east across the county and touched Greensboro, High Point and Jamestown before sliding northeast.
The National Weather Service in Raleigh warned just after 6:25 p.m. that one storm near Kernersville was moving east at 45 mph and could bring damage to roofs, siding and trees. By 7:02 p.m., forecasters said a severe thunderstorm was over Greensboro and moving northeast at 40 mph, with the radar-indicated threat still centered on 60 mph gusts. The watch and warning area included McLeansville, Summerfield, Gibsonville, Pleasant Garden, Stokesdale, Haw River State Park, Lake Guilford Mackintosh Marina and Forest Oaks, along with parts of Interstate 85.
Power problems lingered after the wind passed. Duke Energy had about 25,000 outages across the Triad Tuesday morning after the storms, and later that day crews had reduced the number of customers without power to fewer than 8,000 and expected most remaining outages to be restored by later that night. That left some neighborhoods and road corridors dealing with downed trees and repair crews well into Tuesday evening.
A cold front crossing central North Carolina drove the storm threat. Guilford County also spent part of the evening under a severe thunderstorm watch that ran until 11 p.m., and the June 22 damage followed another round of severe weather just one week earlier, on June 15, when high winds and blinding rain hit parts of Greensboro and McLeansville and left tree damage and neighborhood problems behind.
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