Name: Flood and Hail in North Carolina, June 28, 2006
Start: 2006-06-28T13:50
End: 2006-06-28T16:30
Location: North Carolina

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 1 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

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 4:39 PM EST, 21 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 4:39 PM EST, 21 hours 11 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:49 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

2 hail, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Onslow

When: June 28, 1:50 PM EST
Where: Onslow County, Jacksonville
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.750, -77.417

Flood, Onslow

When: June 28, 2:20 PM EST to 4:30 PM EST
Where: Onslow County, Countywide
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.763, -77.393 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flooding reported across a large area of the county. Water levels reported up to the hood of cars in Jacksonville with 4 feet of water reported on Western Blvd. Flood waters were waist deep in the Tarawa Terrace housing area at Camp Lejeune. Also, 2 to 3 feet of water was reported along Highway 258 and Rhodestown Rd. just south of Richlands.

Hail, Onslow

When: June 28, 2:51 PM EST
Where: Onslow County, 1 mi SSE of Richlands
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 34.880, -77.533

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in North Carolina in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in North Carolina, June 2006

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5510960, 5510961, 5510962.