Storms in North Carolina in 2006

1,981 events in 920 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Carolina in 2006, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

North Carolina in 2006 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

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The year

Events: 1,981
Deaths: 15
Injuries: 49
Damage: $56 million
Episodes: 920

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Hail	753	2	4	$1.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind	709	0	0	$1.1 million
Winter Weather	116	0	0
Flash Flood	116	1	2	$1.2 million
High Wind	80	0	0	$620,000
Lightning	37	1	20	$2.5 million
Tropical Storm	36	0	0	$21 million
Heavy Rain	32	0	1	$27,000
Tornado	31	9	22	$26 million
Heavy Snow	25	0	0
Strong Wind	21	0	0	$40,000
Flood	7	0	0	$60,000
Funnel Cloud	6	0	0
Coastal Flood	6	0	0	$2.1 million
Frost/Freeze	3	0	0
Rip Current	2	2	0
Dust Devil	1	0	0

Every episode, month by month

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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.