Burke County, North Carolina

Thunderstorm wind, hail and tornado events of record · last 3 years

Record current through July 2026. Updated monthly.

Dates below are days on which the National Centers for Environmental Information recorded a thunderstorm wind, hail, or tornado event in this county, at any reported strength. If you have found damage and are trying to work out when it happened, these are the candidate dates.

Date	What was recorded
July 28, 2026	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
July 18, 2026	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
July 4, 2026	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
June 27, 2026	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
March 16, 2026	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
July 12, 2025	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
July 11, 2025	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
May 14, 2025	Hail to 1.00 in
May 8, 2025	Hail to 1.00 in · Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
December 29, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
August 30, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
August 16, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
July 16, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
July 5, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
June 30, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
June 9, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 40 kt (46 mph)
May 26, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
May 15, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
April 11, 2024	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
September 7, 2023	Hail to 0.75 in · Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)
August 7, 2023	Thunderstorm wind to 50 kt (58 mph)

21 event days.

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What this page is not. This is a restatement of the public record at county resolution. It is not a measurement at any address, and an event recorded in the county does not mean an event occurred at a given property — or that it did not. This is not a meteorological opinion, a site observation, or an engineering conclusion.

Not listed here: non-convective high wind and strong wind are recorded by National Weather Service forecast zone rather than by county, and are not included. Flooding, winter weather and tropical systems are outside this page.

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Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, county‑keyed records. Weather records from 1960 forward. This page lists the last 3 years.

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