Storm History: Clay County, North Carolina
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clay 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
- 161
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $1.6 million
- Episodes
- 136
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 71 | 0 | 0 | $431,000 |
| Hail | 29 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 10 | 0 | 0 | $75,000 |
| Flash Flood | 9 | 0 | 0 | $954,000 |
| High Wind | 7 | 0 | 0 | $91,000 |
| Flood | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2003
- Tornado, December 25, 1974
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 1997
- Hail, June 17, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 28, 2006
- High Wind, October 17, 2006
- Tornado, April 25, 2010
- High Wind, November 29, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 17, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2008
- High Wind, March 19, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 16, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 30, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2006
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 16, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 30, 2026
- Winter Weather, November 10, 2025
- Flood, July 4, 2025
- Hail, June 24, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 2, 2025
- Flood, April 7, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2024
- Hail, May 26, 2024
- Hail, May 6, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 3, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 2022
- Flash Flood, March 25, 2021
- Flash Flood, April 12, 2020
- Heavy Snow, February 8, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 11, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2018
- Tornado, March 17, 2018
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 21, 2017
- Flood, December 2, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 25, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 28, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 13, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2013
- Blizzard, March 5, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2012
- Hail, April 26, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 17, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2011
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Hail, June 9, 2011
- Hail, May 26, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 4, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2010
- Tornado, April 25, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- High Wind, December 25, 2009
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Flood, September 21, 2009
- Hail, June 17, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 15, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 8, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 10, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 10, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2007
- High Wind, February 25, 2007
- Winter Weather, February 1, 2007
- Strong Wind, December 1, 2006
- High Wind, October 17, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 28, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 23, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 2006
- Hail, May 20, 2006
- Hail, May 20, 2006
- Hail, May 13, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Heavy Snow, February 11, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 30, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 22, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 29, 2005
- High Wind, December 22, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 16, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 22, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 15, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2003
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2003
- Heavy Snow, January 5, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2002
- Hail, April 28, 2002
- Hail, April 28, 2002
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2002
- High Wind, November 29, 2001
- Winter Storm, March 20, 2001
- Winter Storm, January 20, 2001
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 18, 2000
- Winter Storm, December 2, 2000
- High Wind, March 19, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 13, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 6, 1999
- Ice Storm, December 22, 1998
- Hail, May 7, 1998
- Flash Flood, January 7, 1998
- Flood, January 7, 1998
- Winter Storm, December 30, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 1997
- Winter Storm, January 10, 1997
- Hail, January 5, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow, March 19, 1996
- Hail, April 15, 1993
- Hail, April 15, 1987
- Hail, June 7, 1985
- Tornado, June 6, 1985
- Tornado, February 25, 1980
- Tornado, December 25, 1974
- Tornado, January 10, 1965
More
Tornadoes in Clay CountyEvery warning in Clay 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.