Alert archive / North Carolina / 1986
Weather alerts in North Carolina, May 1986
28 weather alerts in May 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 May 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 28
- Warnings
- 28
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 30, 198610 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 65 min |
| May 20, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 60 min |
| May 21, 11:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Duplin | 60 min |
| May 21, 11:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 60 min |
| May 21, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lenoir, Wayne | 60 min |
| May 21, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne, Wilson | 57 min |
| May 22, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 35 min |
| May 25, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 60 min |
| May 25, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 57 min |
| May 25, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 60 min |
| May 25, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anson | 58 min |
| May 25, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Onslow | 55 min |
| May 25, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 28 min |
| May 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 40 min |
| May 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 60 min |
| May 25, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 60 min |
| May 29, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 63 min |
| May 30, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 55 min |
| May 30, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 66 min |
| May 30, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke | 68 min |
| May 30, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 61 min |
| May 30, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Sampson | 55 min |
| May 30, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Duplin | 50 min |
| May 30, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Duplin | 60 min |
| May 30, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Sampson | 55 min |
| May 30, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 50 min |
| May 30, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 65 min |
| May 30, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 45 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 | 25 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Columbus County4
- Duplin County3
- Wayne County3
- Robeson County2
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Johnston County2
- Sampson County2
- Cumberland County1
- Surry County1
- Lenoir County1
- Wilson County1
- Currituck County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Union County1
- Anson County1
- Onslow County1
- Scotland County1
- New Hanover County1
- Nash County1
- Hoke 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.