North Carolina

Storms in North Carolina in 1950

9 events in 6 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Carolina in 1950, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

North Carolina in 1950 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over North Carolina

The year

Events
9
Deaths
0
Injuries
8
Damage
$283,000
Episodes
6

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado908$283,000

Every episode, month by month

May 1950

July 1950

October 1950

More

Every year in North CarolinaEvery state in 1950Tornadoes in North Carolina in 19501951

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.