North Carolina storm reports for March 16, 2025

Name: NOAA storm reports, North Carolina, March 16, 2025
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 14 hail reports, 15 wind reports and 2 tornado reports in North Carolina on March 16, 2025.

in North Carolina; 31
Storm reports: About 9 miles from Greensboro, NC; 2.0 in
Largest hail: Near 34.70, -76.57, NC; 59 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF1, about 20 miles from Wilmington, NC; 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
Surveyed wind damage

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
Surveyed wind damage

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on March 16, 2025 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

Hail14, most at 6 PM

Wind15, most at 7 PM

Tornado2, most at 6 PM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
6:25 PM	EF1	About 20 miles from Wilmington, NC	3.14 mi long, 200 yd wide
2:02 AM	EF1	About 42 miles from Virginia Beach, VA	3.38 mi long, 100 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
6:30 PM	2.0 in	About 9 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:30 PM	1.75 in	About 8 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:30 PM	1.0 in	About 16 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:35 PM	2.0 in	About 6 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:40 PM	1.25 in	About 2 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:40 PM	0.75 in	About 2 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:42 PM	1.0 in	About 2 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:42 PM	1.0 in	About 2 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:42 PM	1.0 in	In Greensboro, NC
6:43 PM	1.25 in	About 2 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:43 PM	2.0 in	About 3 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:45 PM	1.5 in	About 5 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:52 PM	1.25 in	About 11 miles from Greensboro, NC
6:58 PM	1.0 in	About 20 miles from Greensboro, NC

Time	Gust	Where
8:23 AM	58 mph	About 26 miles from Charlotte, NC
9:20 AM	58 mph	About 52 miles from Greensboro, NC
9:30 AM	58 mph	About 37 miles from Fayetteville, NC
10:20 AM	58 mph	About 13 miles from Durham, NC
11:25 AM	58 mph	About 26 miles from Fayetteville, NC
11:55 AM	58 mph	About 48 miles from Raleigh, NC
5:49 PM	58 mph	About 41 miles from Charlotte, NC
6:55 PM	58 mph	About 38 miles from Wilmington, NC
7:00 PM	58 mph	About 40 miles from Fayetteville, NC
7:05 PM	58 mph	About 46 miles from Charlotte, NC
7:09 PM	58 mph	About 51 miles from Wilmington, NC
7:35 PM	58 mph	About 18 miles from Durham, NC
1:12 AM	59 mph	Near 34.70, -76.57, NC
1:23 AM	58 mph	Near 34.70, -76.57, NC
1:25 AM	58 mph	Near 34.75, -76.64, NC

Cities with reports nearby

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

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Greensboro, NC	2.0 in	None	0
Durham, 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.