The Kernersville plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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4.25 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1903. The next wettest, 4.19 inches, fell in 2020.
Kernersville’s center stands about 1,010 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 850 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granitic Rock, from the Late Mississippian to Permian, 265 to 325 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 53×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granitic. Age: Late Mississippian to Permian, 265 to 325 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Metagranite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Middle Cambrian, 520 to 650 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, mica-schist, calc-silicate-rock. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss, amphibole-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, mudstone, conglomerate. Age: Triassic, 202 to 252 million years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Kernersville reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Smith Creek, Kerners Mill Creek, Salem Creek, Muddy Creek, the Yadkin, the Pee Dee, the Great Pee Dee, Schooner Creek and the Waccamaw: about 320 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Tillery.
150 miles of the trip are on the Great Pee Dee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kernersville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kernersville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 44 inches of water.
On November 14 Kernersville normally reaches 61° and falls to 39°. The record high is 81°, in 1912; the record low 19°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.52 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1903 from the Greensboro Area threaded record (Greensboro/Piedmont Triad International Airport, 7 miles east-southeast, 110 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
