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The public record 1996 to today

North Carolina wind history

The public federal storm record holds 2,544 days with wind on record somewhere in North Carolina since 1996, 1,297 of them at 58 mph or more, across 62,010 reports. The strongest on record is 125 mph on 11 May 2009 in ROBESON County. 145 cities have wind on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched, which storm days more than one source carried, and how far away the nearest instruments stood. The hail family has its own index: North Carolina hail history.

2,544

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,297

Days at 58 mph or more

125mph

Strongest measured, May 2009

145

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in North Carolina

Ranked by days with wind on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population, each with its strongest figure: measured in the observed tone, an estimate in the estimated tone. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Raleigh 292 days 86 mph
  2. 02 Charlotte 271 days 86 mph
  3. 03 Cary 261 days 86 mph
  4. 04 Mount Airy 252 days 81 mph
  5. 05 Garner 249 days 70 mph
  6. 06 Eden 248 days 92 mph
  7. 07 Morrisville 240 days 86 mph
  8. 08 Knightdale 236 days 86 mph
  9. 09 Morganton 236 days 92 mph
  10. 10 Pineville 235 days 86 mph
  11. 11 Kernersville 234 days 82 mph
  12. 12 Winston-Salem 229 days 81 mph
  13. 13 Matthews 228 days 86 mph
  14. 14 Greensboro 226 days 82 mph
  15. 15 Summerfield 224 days 82 mph
  16. 16 Mint Hill 223 days 86 mph
  17. 17 Conover 220 days 81 mph
  18. 18 Walkertown 219 days 81 mph
  19. 19 Belmont 218 days 81 mph
  20. 20 Sawmills 218 days 86 mph
  21. 21 Dallas 216 days 75 mph
  22. 22 Long View 216 days 86 mph
  23. 23 Cramerton 214 days 81 mph
  24. 24 Durham 212 days 86 mph
  25. 25 Gastonia 212 days 86 mph
  26. 26 Newton 212 days 81 mph
  27. 27 Stokesdale 212 days 82 mph
  28. 28 Hickory 209 days 81 mph
  29. 29 Marion 207 days 81 mph
  30. 30 Lewisville 206 days 75 mph
Every place in North Carolina (145)

Wind days by year in North Carolina

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2012, with 111 days of wind, 32 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in North Carolina

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in North Carolina: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
11 May 2009 125 mph Gust Ground observation ROBESON
11 May 2009 125 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
30 Jun 1998 115 mph Sustained Ground observation RANDOLPH
22 Jun 2001 115 mph Sustained Ground observation UNION
22 Jun 2001 115 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
15 Feb 2021 111 mph Gust Ground observation BRUNSWICK
15 Feb 2021 111 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
08 Mar 2005 109 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
The next step

Get the wind report for an address in North Carolina

The figures on this page are the record across North Carolina: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under North Carolina by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A wind day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of wind, not four. A report's figure is its gust where it has one and its sustained speed otherwise, and the tables say which.
Measured and estimated
A speed reported by a person or an instrument on the ground, whether read from an anemometer or judged by an observer from what the wind did, is filed as observed; a speed inferred from a grid or an analysis is an estimate and is marked as one. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its strongest figure reached 58 mph, the National Weather Service criterion for a damaging gust. Weaker wind is still on the record, and still on this page.
Stations
A station reading is the wind at the instrument, not at any address, and is listed with the distance from the page's centre to the instrument. Readings are fetched for the ground around an address when a report is run and held afterwards, so the stations on a page are the ones within 30 miles that the archive holds readings from.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about what reached one.
Terms used on this page
Peak gust, sustained wind, independent source: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 2 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.