North Carolina

Storm History: Greene County, North Carolina

222 episodes, 288 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greene 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
288
Deaths
9
Injuries
68
Damage
$135 million
Episodes
222

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
Hail6801$57,000
Thunderstorm Wind5500$232,000
Tornado54763$59 million
Flash Flood3210$5,000
Winter Storm1814$20,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)1600$76 million
Drought1600
Tropical Storm600$10,000
Heavy Snow500
Winter Weather500
Ice Storm400
Excessive Heat400
High Wind200$1,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Frost/Freeze100
Flood100$1,000

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 Greene County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Greene CountyEvery warning in Greene 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.