North Carolina

Storm History: Jones County, North Carolina

215 episodes, 276 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jones 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
276
Deaths
2
Injuries
16
Damage
$122 million
Episodes
215

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
Hail8600$2.0 million
Tornado52115$19 million
Thunderstorm Wind4801$39,000
Winter Storm1900
Hurricane (Typhoon)1610$96 million
Flash Flood1600
Drought1100
Tropical Storm600$3.9 million
Excessive Heat500
Heavy Snow400
Ice Storm300
Winter Weather200
Flood200
Coastal Flood200$500
Cold/Wind Chill100
High Wind100$10,000
Frost/Freeze100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Jones County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Jones CountyEvery warning in Jones 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.