North Carolina

Storm History: Guilford County, North Carolina

550 episodes, 924 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Guilford 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
924
Deaths
7
Injuries
9
Damage
$122 million
Episodes
550

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
Hail25810$154,000
Flash Flood25010$3.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind19802$2.7 million
Tornado9747$101 million
Winter Storm5200$725,000
Winter Weather2400$20,000
Strong Wind1200$1.1 million
Ice Storm600$8.1 million
High Wind500$56,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)400
Flood400$500,000
Tropical Storm400$4.5 million
Heavy Snow300
Heat210
Lightning200$520,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Heavy Rain100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Guilford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Guilford CountyEvery warning in Guilford 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.