North Carolina

Storm History: Tyrrell County, North Carolina

141 episodes, 158 events since 1975

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tyrrell 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
158
Deaths
4
Injuries
3
Damage
$54 million
Episodes
141

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
Tornado3242$1.4 million
Hail3000$40,000
Thunderstorm Wind2101$30,000
Winter Storm2100
Hurricane (Typhoon)1700$53 million
Tropical Storm800$10,000
Drought600
Excessive Heat500
Heavy Snow400
Coastal Flood300
Winter Weather200
Flash Flood200
Ice Storm200
Cold/Wind Chill100
Waterspout100$15,000
High Wind100
Frost/Freeze100
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 Tyrrell County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Tyrrell CountyEvery warning in Tyrrell 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.