North Carolina

Storm History: Pitt County, North Carolina

385 episodes, 647 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pitt 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
647
Deaths
23
Injuries
267
Damage
$381 million
Episodes
385

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
Hail20315$1.3 million
Tornado1359168$31 million
Thunderstorm Wind12200$432,000
Flash Flood4400$150,000
Flood3200$150,000
Winter Storm25092$75,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)25102$348 million
Drought1600
Tropical Storm1500$10,000
Winter Weather500
Heavy Snow400
Ice Storm400
Excessive Heat400
High Wind300$600
Coastal Flood300$2,000
Lightning200$101,000
Heat230
Cold/Wind Chill100
Funnel Cloud100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Pitt County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pitt CountyEvery warning in Pitt 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.