Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Dudley, NC

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Goldsboro 4 SE, NC, 5 miles northeast of Dudley at 109 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 72°F; January is the coolest, at 54°F and 35°F. September is the wettest at 7.0 inches of precipitation on average and February and November the driest at 3.2 inches; the year adds up to 52.2 inches over 77 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 58% of the year's precipitation (30.2 of 52.2 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 93 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (42); a normal September there has highs of 83°F and 7.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 61 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 42 nights a year. Snowfall averages 2.0 inches a year, most of it in January. That 52.2 inches is more than at 89 of the 140 North Carolina stations used on this site (64%). Mount Olive, 8 miles south, has its own station (Warsaw 5 E, NC): 52.1 inches a year, the same as here, and a July average high of 88°F against 91°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 173 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Dudley: 142 thunderstorm wind reports, 28 flash floods and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 0 people and injured 8, and the NWS estimated $1.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 86 mph, on August 10, 2007. August has had the most flash floods, 13 of 28. Of the 472 North Carolina cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 368 have had fewer than Dudley.

Flood insurance policyholders in Dudley's ZIP code 28333 have filed 39 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1996, and were paid $1.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Floyd in 1999: 13 claims (33% of all) and $463,000, then Hurricane Matthew in 2016 with 11. 90% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 263 North Carolina cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 110 have fewer than Dudley.