NOAA STORM EVENTS · COMPLETE YEARS 2016–2025HISTORICAL REPORTS, NOT A FORECAST OR RISK SCORE
STORM EVENTLEDGERCOUNTY REPORTS · SEASONALITY · IMPACT
EVENT FILE / 37047MINIMUM 5 REPORTS

COLUMBUS · NC

Tornado history

NOAA records coded as Tornado in Columbus during the ten complete years from 2016 through 2025.

Reports8NOAA county-coded rows
Population context16.0per 100,000 residents · 2024 ACS denominator 50,140
Injuries0direct + indirect fields
Fatalities0direct + indirect fields
Not a probability

8 reports in ten years does not mean a 0.8-event annual forecast. Reporting units, event segmentation, coverage, and local exposure all affect the count.

01 / YEAR-BY-YEAR

How the record changed

20181
20191
20203
20211
20242
03 / RECORDED CONSEQUENCES

Impact fields on these rows

Damage estimates are nominal values as filed by the reporting source and retained by NOAA.

Property damage$662Knot inflation-adjusted
Crop damage$0not inflation-adjusted
First report year2,018within selected window
Latest report year2,024within selected window
04 / RECENT ROW SAMPLE

Latest records in this slice

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DateEvent IDSourceMagnitude / scaleFiled damage
2024-05-14NOAA 1,173,575NWS Storm SurveyEF0$1K
2024-05-14NOAA 1,173,574NWS Storm SurveyEF0$20K
2021-06-02NOAA 967,598NWS Storm SurveyEF0$200K
2020-12-24NOAA 933,433NWS Storm SurveyEF0$1K
2020-10-11NOAA 926,214NWS EmployeeEF1$60K
2020-04-13NOAA 885,532NWS EmployeeEF1$100K
2019-09-05NOAA 857,372NWS Storm SurveyEF0$30K
2018-09-16NOAA 784,854NWS Storm SurveyEF1$250K
READING THE RECORD

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