Alert archive / North Carolina / 1987
Weather alerts in North Carolina, April 1987
42 weather alerts in April 1987, 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 April 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 42
- Warnings
- 42
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 15, 198715 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 48 min |
| Apr 12, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 2:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 56 min |
| Apr 15, 3:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Clay | 64 min |
| Apr 15, 8:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 58 min |
| Apr 15, 11:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 63 min |
| Apr 15, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 57 min |
| Apr 15, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 56 min |
| Apr 15, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Forsyth | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 6:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Davidson, Rowan | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Guilford | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 9:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Davidson, Guilford | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 4 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Davidson, Guilford | 96 min |
| Apr 16, 1:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 65 min |
| Apr 17, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 54 min |
| Apr 24, 1:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 62 min |
| Apr 24, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 62 min |
| Apr 24, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 2:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Stokes | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Sampson | 61 min |
| Apr 24, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Duplin | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 60 min |
| Apr 24, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Greene, Lenoir | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 5:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lenoir | 57 min |
| Apr 24, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Northampton | 58 min |
| Apr 25, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 59 min |
| Apr 30, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 30 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 | 34 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mecklenburg County6
- Davidson County6
- Rowan County4
- Guilford County3
- Bladen County3
- Union County2
- Rockingham County2
- Cumberland County2
- Lenoir County2
- Orange County1
- Wake County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Polk County1
- Moore County1
- Forsyth County1
- Randolph County1
- Caswell County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Columbus County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Lincoln County1
- Stokes County1
- Sampson County1
- Duplin County1
- Wayne County1
- Greene County1
- Halifax County1
- Northampton County1
- Brunswick County1
- New Hanover County1
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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.