Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Havelock, NC

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Cherry Point Mcas, NC, 1 mile north of Havelock at 29 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 57°F and 36°F. September is the wettest at 8.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.4 inches; the year adds up to 57.5 inches over 80 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 61% of the year's precipitation (35.3 of 57.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 131 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (46); a normal September there has highs of 84°F and 8.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 38 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 38 nights a year. Snowfall averages 0.8 inches a year, most of it in January. That 57.5 inches is more than at 116 of the 140 North Carolina stations used on this site (83%). Newport, 8 miles south, has its own station (Newport/Morehead City WFO, NC): 60.7 inches a year, 3.2 more than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Beaufort, Duke Marine Lab, NC, 17 miles southeast, averaged 84°F in July and 51°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July to August. Sea level at the Beaufort tide gauge, 17 miles from Havelock, has risen 1.43 ± 0.07 inches per decade from 1953 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 14.3 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 86 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 90 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Havelock: 67 thunderstorm wind reports, 14 flash floods, 5 floods, 3 heavy rain events and 1 lightning strike. They killed 1 person and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $156,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 84 mph, on July 1, 2012. Of the 472 North Carolina cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 201 have had fewer than Havelock.

Flood insurance policyholders in Havelock's ZIP code 28532 have filed 639 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $14.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Florence in 2018: 245 claims (38% of all) and $8.2 million, then Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 150 and Hurricane Isabel in 2003 with 91. 89% 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, 228 have fewer than Havelock.