North Carolina, 2025

Tornado in North Carolina, July 6, 2025

July 6, 2025 · NWS ILM · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Tropical Storm Chantal developed along a frontal boundary off the Georgia coast before moving north making landfall at Litchfield Beach, SC at 4 AM EDT.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$10,000
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 ILM wrote it up.

Tropical Storm Chantal developed along a frontal boundary off the Georgia coast before moving north making landfall at Litchfield Beach, SC at 4 AM EDT.

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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 5, 6:59 PM EST, 8 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 6:59 PM EST, 8 hours 28 minutes before
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The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:25 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, New Hanover

When
July 6, 3:27 AM EST to 3:31 AM EST
Where
New Hanover County, 1.1 mi ESE of (Ilm)wilmington Arpt to 1.11 mi N of (Ilm)wilmington Arpt
Rating
EF0
Path length
1.68 mi
Path width
30 yd
Property damage
$10,000
Reported by
NWS Storm Survey
Coordinates
34.267, -77.881

The tornado formed near the King's Grant subdivision in Wilmington near Jamey Ct, then moved toward the northwest near West Gate Road. There was some minor shingle damage to a home, but mostly large limbs were down along with a couple of snapped/uprooted trees. The tornado crossed North Kerr Road near a truck rental business, then moved across northeast portions of the Wilmington International Airport before causing additional tree damage along Cornelius Moor Ave and Acorn Branch Road. The tornado lifted in the woods north of Acorn Branch Road.

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.

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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1287165.