North Carolina

Storm History: Pender County, North Carolina

357 episodes, 511 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pender 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
511
Deaths
13
Injuries
55
Damage
$316 million
Episodes
357

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
Hail14000$651,000
Thunderstorm Wind9700$297,000
Tornado94338$6.6 million
Flash Flood5700$447,000
Flood2500$36,000
Tropical Storm1600$1.2 million
Winter Storm1416
Lightning13210$586,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)1110$306 million
Rip Current851
Heavy Rain700$100,000
Heat700
Wildfire500$48,000
Drought400
Funnel Cloud200
Winter Weather210$40,000
Ice Storm200
Frost/Freeze200
Waterspout100
Storm Surge/Tide100
High Wind100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Coastal Flood100

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 Pender County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pender CountyEvery warning in Pender 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.