North Carolina storm reports for December 29, 2024

Name: NOAA storm reports, North Carolina, December 29, 2024
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 22 wind reports and 2 tornado reports in North Carolina on December 29, 2024.

in North Carolina; 24
Storm reports: About 18 miles from Charlotte, NC; 61 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF0, about 27 miles from Spartanburg, SC; 2
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 December 29, 2024 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

Wind22, most at 8 AM

Tornado2, most at 7 AM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
7:13 AM	EF0	About 27 miles from Spartanburg, SC	0.96 mi long, 75 yd wide
8:21 AM	EF0	About 8 miles from Charlotte, NC	1.67 mi long, 20 yd wide

Time	Gust	Where
6:58 AM	58 mph	About 26 miles from Spartanburg, SC
7:17 AM	58 mph	About 23 miles from Spartanburg, SC
8:00 AM	58 mph	About 32 miles from Spartanburg, SC
8:04 AM	58 mph	About 23 miles from Hickory, NC
8:15 AM	58 mph	About 13 miles from Hickory, NC
8:15 AM	58 mph	About 20 miles from Charlotte, NC
8:20 AM	59 mph	About 7 miles from Charlotte, NC
8:20 AM	58 mph	About 12 miles from Hickory, NC
8:39 AM	58 mph	About 15 miles from Charlotte, NC
8:40 AM	61 mph	About 18 miles from Charlotte, NC
8:41 AM	58 mph	About 14 miles from Hickory, NC
8:43 AM	46 mph	About 26 miles from Charlotte, NC

Show all 22 wind reports

Time	Gust	Where
8:44 AM	58 mph	About 22 miles from Charlotte, NC
8:50 AM	58 mph	About 25 miles from Hickory, NC
8:57 AM	58 mph	About 28 miles from Hickory, NC
8:59 AM	58 mph	About 40 miles from Hickory, NC
9:15 AM	58 mph	About 33 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
9:19 AM	58 mph	About 32 miles from Winston-Salem, NC
9:20 AM	58 mph	About 45 miles from Charlotte, NC
9:50 AM	58 mph	About 27 miles from Greensboro, NC
10:17 AM	58 mph	About 22 miles from Fayetteville, NC
10:25 AM	58 mph	About 25 miles from Fayetteville, NC

Cities with reports nearby

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

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Charlotte, NC	None	59 mph	1
Hickory, NC	None	58 mph	0

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