Tornado, Onslow
- When
- August 18, 6:01 AM CST
- Where
- Onslow County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.750, -77.480
Tornadoes in North Carolina, August 18, 1991
6 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
- $255,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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
6 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Pender
- When
- August 18, 6:30 AM CST
- Where
- Pender County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.680, -78.050
Tornado, Dare
- When
- August 18, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dare County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -75.700
Tornado, Dare
- When
- August 18, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dare County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.270, -75.550
Tornado, Dare
- When
- August 18, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dare County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 35.350, -75.520
Tornado, Dare
- When
- August 18, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dare County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 35.530, -75.480
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, August 18, 1991
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 18, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 18, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Connecticut, August 18, 1991
- Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 18, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oregon, August 18, 1991
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, August 18, 1991
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 18, 1991
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1991Every state in 1991This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 1991Warnings in North Carolina, August 1991
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: 10088570, 10088571, 10088572, 10088573, 10088574, 10088575.