Storms in North Carolina in 2023
Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Carolina in 2023, 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 2023 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
The year
- Events
- 1,380
- Deaths
- 4
- Injuries
- 36
- Damage
- $308 million
- Episodes
- 228
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 851 | 0 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| Hail | 160 | 0 | 6 | $1.2 million |
| Flash Flood | 141 | 1 | 2 | $1.5 million |
| Heavy Rain | 30 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 26 | 0 | 20 | $302 million |
| High Wind | 22 | 0 | 0 | $402,000 |
| Lightning | 22 | 0 | 1 | $630,000 |
| Winter Weather | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Storm | 16 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Flood | 13 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 |
| Rip Current | 10 | 2 | 0 | |
| Coastal Flood | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Storm Surge/Tide | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 4 | 1 | 7 | $12,000 |
| Funnel Cloud | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Debris Flow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Depression | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Every episode, month by month
January 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, January 3, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, January 3, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, January 4, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, January 4, 2023
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, January 4, 2023
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, January 12, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, January 12, 2023
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, January 13 to 14, 2023
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, January 13 to 14, 2023
- High Wind in North Carolina, January 20, 2023
- High Wind in North Carolina, January 26, 2023
February 2023
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, February 11 to 12, 2023
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, February 12 to 13, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 27, 2023
- High Wind in North Carolina, February 27 to 28, 2023
- High Wind in North Carolina, February 27 to 28, 2023
March 2023
- Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, March 2, 2023
- Flood and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, March 3 to 4, 2023
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in North Carolina, March 3, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, March 3, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, March 3, 2023
- High Wind in North Carolina, March 3 to 4, 2023
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, March 12 to 14, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, March 25, 2023
- Strong Wind in North Carolina, March 25, 2023
- Hail in North Carolina, March 26, 2023
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, March 26 to 27, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, March 27, 2023
April 2023
- Strong Wind in North Carolina, April 1, 2023
- High Wind in North Carolina, April 1 to 2, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 6, 2023
- Hail in North Carolina, April 6, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 6, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in North Carolina, April 7, 2023
- Flood in North Carolina, April 8 to 9, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 14, 2023
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, April 22, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 22, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 22, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 22, 2023
- Tornadoes in North Carolina, April 22, 2023
- Heavy Rain in North Carolina, April 26, 2023
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, April 28, 2023
- Hail in North Carolina, April 28, 2023
- Hail in North Carolina, April 28, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 30, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 30, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 30, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 30, 2023
- Strong Wind in North Carolina, April 30, 2023
May 2023
- High Wind in North Carolina, May 1 to 2, 2023
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 9, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 9, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 16, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 16, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 16, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 16, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in North Carolina, May 19, 2023
June 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 3, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 3, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 3, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 12, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 12, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 16, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 16, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 16, 2023
- Hail in North Carolina, June 16, 2023
- Rip Currents in North Carolina, June 17, 2023
- Rip Current in North Carolina, June 18, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 19, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 19, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 19, 2023
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, June 20, 2023
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 20, 2023
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 21, 2023
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 22, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 23, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 23, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 26, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 26, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 26, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, June 26 to 27, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 26 to 27, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 27, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 27, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 30, 2023
July 2023
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 1, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 1, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 1, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 1, 2023
- Funnel Cloud in North Carolina, July 1, 2023
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 2, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 2, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 2, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 2, 2023
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 3, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 3, 2023
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 3, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 3, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 3, 2023
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 4, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 4, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 4, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 5, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 5, 2023
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, July 5, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 6, 2023
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Carolina, July 7, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 7, 2023
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 7, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 7, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 8, 2023
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, July 8, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 8, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 9, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 9, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 9, 2023
- Funnel Cloud in North Carolina, July 10, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 13, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 13, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 14, 2023
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 14, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 14, 2023
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 15 to 16, 2023
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, July 15 to 16, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 18, 2023
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 19, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 19, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 19, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 19, 2023
- Flood in North Carolina, July 20, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 23, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 24, 2023
- Hail in North Carolina, July 25, 2023
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 26, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 28, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 29, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 29, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 29, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 30, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 30, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in North Carolina, July 31, 2023
- Rip Current in North Carolina, July 31, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 31, 2023
August 2023
- Rip Current in North Carolina, August 5, 2023
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 6, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 6, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 6, 2023
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 10, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 10, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 10, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 12, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 12, 2023
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 14 to 15, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 14, 2023
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 14 to 15, 2023
- Debris Flow and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Excessive Heat in North Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 24, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 24, 2023
- Rip Current in North Carolina, August 26, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 26, 2023
- Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, August 26 to 28, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 26, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 26, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 26, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 27, 2023
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 27, 2023
- Flood in North Carolina, August 27, 2023
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 27, 2023
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, August 28, 2023
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 28, 2023
- Flash Flood and Flood in North Carolina, August 28, 2023
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 28 to 29, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 29, 2023
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, August 29, 2023
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Carolina, August 30 to 31, 2023
- Tropical Storm and Storm Surge in North Carolina, August 31, 2023
- Coastal Flood in North Carolina, August 31, 2023
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, August 31, 2023
September 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 8, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 8, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 8, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 9, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 9, 2023
- Flash Flood and Heavy Rain in North Carolina, September 9, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 9, 2023
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 9, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 12 to 13, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, September 12, 2023
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 13, 2023
- Tropical Storm and Tropical Depression in North Carolina, September 22 to 23, 2023
- Heavy Rain in North Carolina, September 22 to 23, 2023
- Tropical Storm and Storm Surge in North Carolina, September 22 to 23, 2023
- Tropical Storm in North Carolina, September 22 to 23, 2023
- Tornado in North Carolina, September 23, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in North Carolina, September 23, 2023
- Coastal Flood in North Carolina, September 26 to 28, 2023
October 2023
- Flood in North Carolina, October 6, 2023
- Coastal Flood in North Carolina, October 15, 2023
- Coastal Flood in North Carolina, October 31, 2023
November 2023
December 2023
- Drought in North Carolina, December 1 to 25, 2023
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, December 10, 2023
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, December 11, 2023
- Coastal Flood and Heavy Rain in North Carolina, December 17, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Coastal Flood in North Carolina, December 17 to 18, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in North Carolina, December 17, 2023
- High Wind in North Carolina, December 18, 2023
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, December 18, 2023
- Flood and Heavy Rain in North Carolina, December 25 to 27, 2023
- Flooding in North Carolina, December 26 to 27, 2023
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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.