North Carolina

Storms in North Carolina in 2009

1,842 events in 331 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Carolina in 2009, 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 2009 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
1,842
Deaths
18
Injuries
32
Damage
$31 million
Episodes
331

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 eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind63503$6.2 million
Hail39203$2.2 million
Winter Weather19000
Strong Wind10642$151,000
Flash Flood10221$5.8 million
Winter Storm10130
Heavy Snow7400
High Wind5900$178,000
Lightning4128$653,000
Flood3720$6.0 million
Tornado3408$3.7 million
Heavy Rain3200$15,000
Coastal Flood1500$5.7 million
Ice Storm1200$5,000
Rip Current655
High Surf300
Debris Flow202$200,000
Funnel Cloud100

Every episode, month by month

January 2009

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December 2009

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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.