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Roofing in Craven County, NC
Craven County is centered on New Bern and sits in the sounds of North Carolina. Carolina Trophy Roofs works throughout the county, from New Bern and Havelock out to the smaller communities that most contractors will not drive to.
Sound-side and estuarine roofs sit in persistently high humidity, with long-duration wind events and storm surge flooding that arrives from the water side rather than the ocean.
Sustained humidity drives algae streaking and accelerates decking moisture problems. Long-duration wind loosens fasteners progressively rather than failing all at once, so damage is often missed until a leak appears.
New Bern sits where the Neuse and Trent rivers meet and took significant surge flooding during Hurricane Florence in 2018.
If you need a roof inspected, repaired or replaced in Craven 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 Craven County
What the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recorded happening over Craven 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 142 severe-weather events recorded against Craven County between 2016 and 2026: 116 thunderstorm wind events, 19 hail reports and 7 tornadoes.
Of the 19 hail reports, 16 measured 1.00 in across or larger and 3 measured under an inch. The largest on record is 1.75 in (Golf Ball) on August 10, 2019.
The strongest wind gust in the record is 67 kt (about 77 mph), a measured gust, on January 9, 2024. The county record holds seven tornadoes over the same period.
The busiest complete year in the record is 2022, with 23 events. The most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition is a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 kt (about 74 mph) on July 11, 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
142
2016–2026
Hail 1.00 in or larger
16
of 19 hail reports
Largest hail
1.75 in
Golf Ball · August 10, 2019
Peak gust
67 kt
about 77 mph · January 9, 2024
Tornadoes
7
in the county record
Significant events
34
by this dataset's definition
Events recorded per year
- 2016
- 13
- 2017
- 6
- 2018
- 6
- 2019
- 20
- 2020
- 15
- 2021
- 3
- 2022
- 23
- 2023
- 23
- 2024
- 10
- 2025
- 21
- 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
- Jan 9, 2024 -- Thunderstorm Wind (67 kt gust)
- Aug 10, 2019 -- Hail (Golf Ball hail, 1.75 in)
- Sep 13, 2018 -- Tornado (EF1)
- Jul 5, 2016 -- Thunderstorm Wind (50 kt gust) -- $3K 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
11 preliminary storm reports have been filed for Craven County since June 1, 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind events and 1 hail report. The largest hail in the window is 1.75 in (Golf Ball), reported July 8, 2026. The strongest gust reported is 70 kt (about 81 mph), on July 8, 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. $3,000 is the sum of NOAA’s recorded property-damage estimates across every event in Craven 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.