North Carolina

Storms in North Carolina in 1986

392 events in 53 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Carolina in 1986, 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 1986 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
392
Deaths
4
Injuries
27
Damage
$1.4 million
Episodes
53

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 Wind27603
Hail9919
Tornado17315$1.4 million

Every episode, month by month

February 1986

March 1986

April 1986

May 1986

June 1986

July 1986

August 1986

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Every year in North CarolinaEvery state in 1986Tornadoes in North Carolina in 1986Warnings in North Carolina in 198619851987

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.