Hail, Bladen
- When
- April 19, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Bladen County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.450, -78.830
Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, April 19, 1978
5 hail, 4 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
- 3
- Property damage
- $753,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Duplin
- When
- April 19, 4:43 PM CST
- Where
- Duplin County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 11.6 mi
- Path width
- 70 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.830, -78.030
Hail, Wake
- When
- April 19, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Wake County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.680, -78.600
Tornado, Robeson
- When
- April 19, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Robeson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 13.4 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 34.780, -79.130
Hail, Johnston
- When
- April 19, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Johnston County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.630, -78.350
Tornado, Onslow
- When
- April 19, 5:25 PM CST
- Where
- Onslow County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.930, -77.630
Hail, Wake
- When
- April 19, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Wake County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.720, -78.620
Tornado, Jones
- When
- April 19, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Jones County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.7 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.130, -77.270
Hail, Duplin
- When
- April 19, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Duplin County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.920, -77.770
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
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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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10087693, 10087694, 10087695, 10087696, 10087697, 10087698, 10087699, 10087700, 10087701.