North Carolina

Storm History: Hyde County, North Carolina

198 episodes, 253 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hyde 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
253
Deaths
3
Injuries
5
Damage
$99 million
Episodes
198

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
Tornado5504$1.6 million
Hail5101$162,000
Thunderstorm Wind4000$10,000
Winter Storm2400
Hurricane (Typhoon)2000$85 million
Tropical Storm1100$12 million
Drought900
Flash Flood700
Excessive Heat700
Coastal Flood600
Heavy Snow500
Flood400
Waterspout300$20,000
High Wind300
Rip Current330
Winter Weather200
Cold/Wind Chill100$350,000
Frost/Freeze100
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 Hyde County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hyde CountyEvery warning in Hyde 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.