Tornado, Dare
- When
- July 8, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dare County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 35.920, -75.700
Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, July 8, 1975
5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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.
Event by event
5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Chatham
- When
- July 8, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Chatham County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.770, -79.150
Thunderstorm Wind, Chatham
- When
- July 8, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Chatham County
- Coordinates
- 35.770, -79.150
Hail, Chatham
- When
- July 8, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Chatham County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.620, -79.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Chatham
- When
- July 8, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Chatham County
- Coordinates
- 35.620, -79.080
Hail, Harnett
- When
- July 8, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Harnett County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.420, -78.950
Thunderstorm Wind, Harnett
- When
- July 8, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Harnett County
- Coordinates
- 35.420, -78.950
Hail, Davidson
- When
- July 8, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Davidson County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.820, -80.270
Hail, Person
- When
- July 8, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Person County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.400, -78.980
Thunderstorm Wind, Person
- When
- July 8, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Person County
- Coordinates
- 36.400, -78.980
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, July 8, 1975
- Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 8, 1975
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 8, 1975
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 8, 1975
- Damaging Wind in Maine, July 8, 1975
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 8, 1975
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 8, 1975
- Hail in Arkansas, July 8, 1975
- Hail in Montana, July 8, 1975
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1975Every state in 1975This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 1975
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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10088739, 10088740, 10088741, 10088742, 10088743, 10088744, 10088745, 10088746, 10088747, 10088748.