Tornado, Carteret
- When
- July 31, 2:45 PM EST
- Where
- Carteret County, 3 mi N of Williston
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.830, -76.500
Tornado in North Carolina, July 31, 1998
At 245 PM EST the general public, law enforcement and spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown over the Open Ground Farms north of Williston. No damage was reported.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MHX wrote it up.
At 245 PM EST the general public, law enforcement and spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown over the Open Ground Farms north of Williston. No damage was reported.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flood and Hail in Montana, July 31, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, July 31, 1998
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 31, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, July 31, 1998
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 31, 1998
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 31, 1998
- Drought in New Jersey, July 31, 1998
- Flash Flood in Idaho, July 31, 1998
- Drought in Pennsylvania, July 31, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 31, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 31, 1998
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 31, 1998
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 1998Warnings in North Carolina, July 1998
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5653986.