North Carolina

Storm History: Iredell County, North Carolina

609 episodes, 768 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Iredell 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
768
Deaths
7
Injuries
15
Damage
$23 million
Episodes
609

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
Hail29101$967,000
Thunderstorm Wind14123$883,000
Winter Weather7100
Tornado6215$5.4 million
Flash Flood6212$951,000
Drought3500
Heavy Snow2000$5,000
Lightning1404$645,000
High Wind1200$756,000
Ice Storm1200$10 million
Winter Storm1000
Cold/Wind Chill700
Flood710$2.0 million
Strong Wind520$30,000
Sleet400
Frost/Freeze400$1.0 million
Tropical Storm300$220,000
Dense Fog200
Excessive Heat200
Heat100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Heavy Rain100
Freezing Fog100

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 Iredell County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Iredell CountyEvery warning in Iredell 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.