North Carolina storm reports for May 26, 2022

Name: NOAA storm reports, North Carolina, May 26, 2022
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 2 hail reports, 28 wind reports and 5 tornado reports in North Carolina on May 26, 2022.

in North Carolina; 35
Storm reports: About 7 miles from Hickory, NC; 1.75 in
Largest hail: About 30 miles from Hickory, NC; 69 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF2, about 26 miles from Hickory, NC; 5
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; gust estimates from NOAA URMA; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on May 26, 2022 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot. Gust lines are estimates: the highest gust of the day in NOAA's hourly 2.5 km wind analysis (URMA), which fills in between weather stations. They aren't measurements at any building.

Reports by hour

Hail2, most at 4 PM

Wind28, most at 5 AM

Tornado5, most at 3 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
3:13 PM	EF0	About 30 miles from Spartanburg, SC	0.24 mi long, 25 yd wide
3:23 PM	EF0	About 30 miles from Hickory, NC	0.01 mi long, 25 yd wide
5:59 PM	EF2	About 26 miles from Hickory, NC	5.97 mi long, 150 yd wide
6:13 PM	EF1	About 34 miles from Winston-Salem, NC	1.5 mi long, 100 yd wide
8:03 PM	EF1	About 23 miles from Winston-Salem, NC	2.8 mi long, 100 yd wide

Time	Gust	Where
4:00 PM	58 mph	About 32 miles from Spartanburg, SC
4:10 PM	58 mph	About 7 miles from Hickory, NC
5:25 PM	58 mph	About 7 miles from Hickory, NC
5:38 PM	58 mph	About 35 miles from Hickory, NC
5:40 PM	58 mph	About 27 miles from Hickory, NC
5:45 PM	58 mph	About 37 miles from Hickory, NC
6:20 PM	58 mph	About 35 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
6:25 PM	69 mph	About 30 miles from Hickory, NC
6:27 PM	58 mph	About 38 miles from Hickory, NC
6:34 PM	58 mph	About 32 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
6:45 PM	63 mph	About 33 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
7:11 PM	58 mph	About 38 miles from Winston-Salem, NC

Show all 28 wind reports

Time	Gust	Where
7:15 PM	58 mph	About 35 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
7:29 PM	58 mph	About 38 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
7:35 PM	58 mph	About 40 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
8:38 PM	58 mph	About 22 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
2:14 AM	58 mph	About 7 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
2:17 AM	58 mph	About 8 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
2:28 AM	58 mph	About 13 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
3:29 AM	63 mph	About 28 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
5:09 AM	58 mph	About 9 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
5:24 AM	58 mph	About 6 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
5:36 AM	58 mph	About 11 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
5:44 AM	58 mph	About 36 miles from Charlotte, NC
5:45 AM	58 mph	About 32 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
5:45 AM	58 mph	About 12 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
5:47 AM	58 mph	About 33 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
6:10 AM	58 mph	About 18 miles from Winston-Salem, NC

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust
Hickory, NC	1.75 in	58 mph
Greensboro, NC	None	58 mph
Winston-Salem, NC	None	58 mph

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.

Time	Size	Where
4:25 PM	1.75 in	About 7 miles from Hickory, NC
6:35 PM	1.0 in	About 22 miles from Hickory, NC