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Carolina Trophy Roofs provides roofing services throughout Carteret County, NC, serving the following communities:
Roofing in Carteret County, NC
Carteret County is centered on Beaufort and sits in the coast of North Carolina. Carolina Trophy Roofs works throughout the county, from Morehead City and Beaufort out to the smaller communities that most contractors will not drive to.
Ocean-adjacent mainland roofs face hurricane and tropical-storm landfall, sustained high wind and year-round salt air carried inland on the prevailing breeze.
Blow-offs usually start where the roof plane changes - hips, ridges, rakes and around penetrations. Salt exposure shortens the life of exposed fasteners and unprotected flashing.
If you need a roof inspected, repaired or replaced in Carteret County — or you have storm damage and need it tarped today — Carolina Trophy Roofs responds across the county with free estimates and manufacturer-backed workmanship.
Storm history in Carteret County
What the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recorded happening over Carteret County — how much hail, at what size, how recently, and how hard the wind has blown. These are weather records, not an assessment of any building.
NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 120 severe-weather events recorded against Carteret County between 2016 and 2026: 90 thunderstorm wind events, 18 tornadoes and 12 hail reports.
Of the 12 hail reports, 10 measured 1.00 in across or larger and 2 measured under an inch. The largest on record is 2.00 in (Baseball) on May 15, 2024.
The strongest wind gust in the record is 74 kt (about 85 mph), an estimated gust, on February 16, 2016. The county record holds 18 tornadoes over the same period.
The busiest complete year in the record is 2016, with 21 events. The most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition is a tornado event on August 24, 2026. That one is a preliminary report and has not yet been through the quality-control review that produces the permanent archive.
Events on record
120
2016–2026
Hail 1.00 in or larger
10
of 12 hail reports
Largest hail
2.00 in
Baseball · May 15, 2024
Peak gust
74 kt
about 85 mph · February 16, 2016
Tornadoes
18
in the county record
Significant events
40
by this dataset's definition
Events recorded per year
- 2016
- 21
- 2017
- 7
- 2018
- 16
- 2019
- 10
- 2020
- 8
- 2021
- 3
- 2022
- 9
- 2023
- 12
- 2024
- 19
- 2025
- 13
- 2026*
- 2
* The most recent data year is partial. NOAA publishes storm reports on a rolling basis and the final months are still being processed, so a low count in the last year is not evidence of a quiet year. The curated archive behind these counts runs through May 31, 2026; anything later sits in the preliminary block below.
Notable events in the archive
- May 15, 2024 -- Hail (Baseball hail, 2.00 in)
- Nov 24, 2018 -- Tornado (EF2)
- Sep 2, 2016 -- Tornado (EF1) -- $150K property damage reported
- Feb 16, 2016 -- Thunderstorm Wind (74 kt gust) -- $50K property damage reported
- Feb 16, 2016 -- Tornado (EF1) -- $100K property damage reported
Selected by the dataset’s own rule rather than by editorial choice: the largest hail, the peak wind gust, the strongest tornado and the two costliest events by recorded property damage, deduplicated and newest first. Any dollar figure above is NOAA’s recorded estimate for that one event.
Preliminary — not yet in the permanent archive
10 preliminary storm reports have been filed for Carteret County since June 1, 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind events and 1 tornado. The strongest gust reported is 62 kt (about 71 mph), on July 29, 2026.
Preliminary reports covering 2026-05-31 onward come from National Weather Service storm reports filed as events occur. They have not yet been through the quality-control review that produces the permanent archive, and individual reports may later be revised, combined or withdrawn. NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports.
What these counts cover. County figures count events NOAA recorded against a county (hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes). High wind, winter storms, ice storms, blizzards, heavy snow, hurricanes and tropical storms are recorded against National Weather Service forecast zones rather than counties, so they are reported at state level instead. Counts reflect events that were observed and reported.
“Significant” on this page means an event meeting any one of three tests: hail 1.00 in across or larger, a wind gust of 58 kt or more (the National Weather Service severe thunderstorm criterion), or any tornado. It is a severity definition used by this dataset and is not an official NOAA classification.
The damage figure. $450,000 is the sum of NOAA’s recorded property-damage estimates across every event in Carteret County over the period — a county total, not a figure for any one property, any one building or any one claim. NOAA records these figures as estimates made at the time of reporting. They are not adjusted for inflation, and they are frequently absent or zero — a zero means nothing was recorded, not that nothing was damaged.
Source. Archived figures come from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Storm Events Database, covering 2016 through May 31, 2026. Anything after that date comes from NOAA Storm Prediction Center preliminary storm reports and is labelled preliminary wherever it appears. Both are US Government works in the public domain.