North Carolina

Storm History: Hertford County, North Carolina

211 episodes, 257 events since 1966

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hertford 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
257
Deaths
1
Injuries
15
Damage
$69 million
Episodes
211

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
Hail6300$234,000
Thunderstorm Wind4900$207,000
Tornado39115$33 million
Winter Storm2500
Heavy Rain1900
Winter Weather1700
Flash Flood1600$20 million
Tropical Storm500$15 million
Frost/Freeze400
Flood400$250,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$1.4 million
High Wind300$12,000
Excessive Heat300
Heat200
Heavy Snow200$1,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Ice Storm100
Blizzard100

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 Hertford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hertford CountyEvery warning in Hertford 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.