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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 14:10:29 EST

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Lots of reports... the most impressive:

(bottom of http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/nc/public.html )

1132 AM ASHEBORO NC WIND DAMAGE
02/22/03 RANDOLPH STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
                                           DAMAGE TO ASHEBORO MALL.
                                           MOBILE HOMES OVERTURNED
                                           AND A STEEPLE OFF A CHURCH

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ky/public.html

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1158 AM EST SUN FEB 23 2003

...STORM DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED TWO MILES WEST OF OAKDALE SATURDAY
HAD AN F1 TORNADO EMBEDDED IN STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS...

A STORM SURVEY TEAM FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON
DETERMINED THAT THE STORM DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED AROUND 4:13 PM EST
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22ND...TWO MILES WEST OF OAKDALE...WAS THE RESULT
OF AN F1 TORNADO EMBEDDED IN DOWNBURST WINDS.

A LARGE SWATH OF DOWNBURST WINDS...NEARLY 450 FEET WIDE...SWEPT
THROUGH THE DAMAGED AREA. EMBEDDED IN THESE WINDS WAS AN F1
TORNADO...WITH WINDS BETWEEN 100 AND 112 MILES PER HOUR...THAT WAS
ON THE GROUND FOR APPROXIMATELY 100 YARDS AND WAS 75 YARDS WIDE.

THIS STORM CLAIMED TWO LIVES AND INJURED SEVEN. AT LEAST FIVE
TRAILERS WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND NUMEROUS OTHER STRUCTURES
WERE DAMAGED.

Also media reports:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WEATHER/02/23/eastern.storms/

At least one person was killed and 10 others injured after strong winds hit
a trailer park in eastern Kentucky.

Roofs collapsed and waterways swelled over their banks as heavy rainstorms
slammed areas of the East Coast still covered with a record snowfall. Snow
that melted in warmer temperatures added to the soggy conditions.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/5241993.htm

ASHEBORO, N.C. - Randolph County took the brunt of 60 mph wind gusts and
heavy rains embedded in a violent weather system that swept across the
state and out to sea Saturday.

The storm knocked down power lines and trees throughout the county. In
Asheboro, the wind tore off roofs and uprooted trees; a mall parking lot
was littered with gutter fragments, pieces of signs and brush.

Duke Power Co. reported 13,000 customers without power at the storm's peak
in North Carolina and South Carolina, but that number had been trimmed to
2,000 by about 8:30 p.m. Progress Energy said the storm knocked out power
to some 7,000 customers at the peak in North Carolina and South Carolina,
but by 8:30 p.m. only 896 customers were without power.

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