Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Moyock, NC

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Elizabeth City, NC, 14 miles south of Moyock at 8 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 53°F and 34°F. July and August are the wettest at 5.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.3 inches; the year adds up to 51.3 inches over 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 56% of the year's precipitation (28.7 of 51.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 106 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (41); a normal September there has highs of 82°F and 5.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 40 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 58 nights a year. That 51.3 inches is more than at 82 of the 140 North Carolina stations used on this site (59%). South Mills, 9 miles west, has its own station (Wallaceton-Lake Drummond, VA): 54.2 inches a year, 2.9 more than here, and a July average high of 91°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Money Point, VA, 21 miles northwest, averaged 82°F in July and 46°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July to August. Sea level at the Duck tide gauge, 31 miles from Moyock, has risen 1.94 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1978 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 19.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 118 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 102 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Moyock: 58 thunderstorm wind reports, 18 heavy rain events, 15 flash floods, 8 floods and 3 lightning strikes. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $721,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 69 mph, on June 23, 2026. Of the 472 North Carolina cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 216 have had fewer than Moyock.

Flood insurance policyholders in Moyock's ZIP code 27958 have filed 162 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1991, and were paid $1.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Matthew in 2016: 40 claims (25% of all) and $856,000, then Tropical Storm Ernesto in 2006 with 12. 60% 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, 197 have fewer than Moyock.