Hail, Chatham
- When
- March 27, 2:25 PM EST
- Where
- Chatham County, Se Portion
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.703, -79.255 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, March 27, 1993
8 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 9 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- None recorded
- 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
8 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cumberland
- When
- March 27, 3:25 PM EST
- Where
- Cumberland County to Fort Bragg
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.049, -78.827 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Wake
- When
- March 27, 3:40 PM EST
- Where
- Wake County, New Hill
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.790, -78.650 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A small tornado touched down briefly south of Lake Wheeler and moved northward blowing down trees in its path.
Hail, Wake
- When
- March 27, 3:40 PM EST
- Where
- Wake County, Raleigh
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.790, -78.650 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A small tornado touched down briefly south of Lake Wheeler and moved northward blowing down trees in its path.
Hail, Wake
- When
- March 27, 3:50 PM EST
- Where
- Wake County, Raleigh
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.790, -78.650 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A small tornado touched down briefly south of Lake Wheeler and moved northward blowing down trees in its path.
Tornado, Wake
- When
- March 27, 4:05 PM EST
- Where
- Wake County, Raleigh
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.790, -78.650 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
A small tornado touched down briefly south of Lake Wheeler and moved northward blowing down trees in its path.
Hail, Orange
- When
- March 27, 4:20 PM EST
- Where
- Orange County, Chapel Hill
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.061, -79.121 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Surry
- When
- March 27, 4:20 PM EST
- Where
- Surry County, Dobson
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.415, -80.687 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Durham
- When
- March 27, 4:24 PM EST
- Where
- Durham County, Rdu
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.036, -78.876 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
Every storm in North Carolina in 1993Every state in 1993This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 1993Warnings in North Carolina, March 1993
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: 10338990, 10338163, 10337488, 10337489, 10337538, 10337539, 10337464, 10337976, 10338212.