Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit La Grange, NC

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Goldsboro 4 SE, NC, 11 miles west of La Grange 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 101 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (40); 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%). Snow Hill, 10 miles northeast, has its own station (Kinston Ag Rsch, NC): 52.8 inches a year, 0.6 more than here, and the same July average high, 91°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 118 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of La Grange: 99 thunderstorm wind reports, 16 flash floods and 3 floods. They killed 2 people and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $249,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on May 16, 2014. August has had the most flash floods, 5 of 16. Of the 472 North Carolina cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 231 have had fewer than La Grange.

Flood insurance policyholders in La Grange's ZIP code 28551 have filed 40 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1996, and were paid $1.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Matthew in 2016: 18 claims (45% of all) and $594,000, then Hurricane Florence in 2018 with 13. 93% 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, 114 have fewer than La Grange.