North Carolina

Storms in North Carolina in 1977

90 events in 35 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Carolina in 1977, 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 1977 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
90
Deaths
0
Injuries
12
Damage
$3.4 million
Episodes
35

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
Thunderstorm Wind4600
Tornado31012$3.4 million
Hail1300

Every episode, month by month

February 1977

March 1977

April 1977

May 1977

June 1977

July 1977

August 1977

September 1977

October 1977

November 1977

December 1977

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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.