North Carolina

Storms in North Carolina in 1955

18 events in 15 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Carolina in 1955, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

North Carolina in 1955 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
18
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Damage
$353,000
Episodes
15

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
Hail900
Tornado612$353,000
Thunderstorm Wind300

Every episode, month by month

March 1955

April 1955

May 1955

June 1955

July 1955

August 1955

More

Every year in North CarolinaEvery state in 1955Tornadoes in North Carolina in 195519541956

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.