North Carolina

Storm History: Brunswick County, North Carolina

370 episodes, 604 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brunswick 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
604
Deaths
22
Injuries
20
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
370

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
Hail16401$130,000
Tornado111411$4.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind9000$495,000
Flash Flood9000$1.3 million
Flood3300$11,000
Lightning2512$1.4 million
Tropical Storm1400$152,000
Rip Current14166
Winter Storm1300
Hurricane (Typhoon)1200$4.3 million
Heavy Rain1100$1.0 million
Heat700
Waterspout400
Drought400
Funnel Cloud300
Storm Surge/Tide200
Strong Wind210$1,000
Coastal Flood200
Wildfire200$2.5 million
Ice Storm100

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 Brunswick County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brunswick CountyEvery warning in Brunswick 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.