Alert archive / North Carolina / 1986
Weather alerts in North Carolina, August 1986
54 weather alerts in August 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 54
- Warnings
- 54
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 11, 198614 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Craven, Pamlico | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 68 min |
| Aug 2, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anson | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Craven, Pamlico | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 57 min |
| Aug 7, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Pitt | 35 min |
| Aug 11, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance | 69 min |
| Aug 11, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 64 min |
| Aug 11, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance | 68 min |
| Aug 11, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 43 min |
| Aug 11, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 34 min |
| Aug 11, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 30 min |
| Aug 11, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 33 min |
| Aug 11, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 40 min |
| Aug 11, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Rowan | 63 min |
| Aug 11, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 67 min |
| Aug 11, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance | 67 min |
| Aug 11, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 56 min |
| Aug 11, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 48 min |
| Aug 11, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Greene, Pitt | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 56 min |
| Aug 12, 1:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 3:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, Rutherford | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Polk | 4 hr |
| Aug 20, 10:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham | 100 min |
| Aug 20, 11:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wilson | 63 min |
| Aug 20, 1:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Greene, Wayne | 62 min |
| Aug 20, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Bertie | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 3:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 57 min |
| Aug 27, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 68 min |
| Aug 27, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 4:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville | 35 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 45 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Durham County6
- Wake County5
- Franklin County4
- Mecklenburg County4
- Johnston County4
- Orange County4
- Craven County2
- Pamlico County2
- Gaston County2
- Pitt County2
- Granville County2
- Alamance County2
- Halifax County2
- Greene County2
- Columbus County1
- Person County1
- Moore County1
- Warren County1
- Harnett County1
- Anson County1
- Nash County1
- Union County1
- Lincoln County1
- Rockingham County1
- Stokes County1
- Catawba County1
- Vance County1
- Davidson County1
- Rowan County1
- Dare County1
- Buncombe County1
- Henderson County1
- Rutherford County1
- Polk County1
- Wilson County1
- Wayne County1
- Bertie County1
- Chatham County1
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.