North Carolina

Storm History: Bladen County, North Carolina

415 episodes, 628 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bladen County, North Carolina: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
628
Deaths
10
Injuries
22
Damage
$98 million
Episodes
415

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail24401$827,000
Thunderstorm Wind17304$1.5 million
Tornado70510$41 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)3443$5.3 million
Lightning1201$136,000
Flash Flood1000$23,000
Winter Storm1000
Drought1000
Flood1000$20,000
High Wind810$46 million
Strong Wind800$44,000
Winter Weather600$30,000
Heavy Snow500
Ice Storm500$3.5 million
Tropical Storm500
Heavy Rain400$10,000
Funnel Cloud400
Heat400
Frost/Freeze300
Wildfire200$500,000
Dense Smoke103

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Bladen County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bladen CountyEvery warning in Bladen County since 1986Every county in North Carolina

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.