Alert archive / North Carolina / 1987
Weather alerts in North Carolina, August 1987
41 weather alerts in August 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 August 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 41
- Warnings
- 41
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 29, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Onslow, Pender | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Orange | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Bertie, Martin | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 65 min |
| Aug 5, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Gates | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Pitt | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lenoir | 61 min |
| Aug 19, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash | 15 min |
| Aug 19, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wake | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Craven, Jones | 65 min |
| Aug 21, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 59 min |
| Aug 21, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance | 60 min |
| Aug 28, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Northampton | 42 min |
| Aug 28, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 10:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Montgomery, Stanly | 58 min |
| Aug 29, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Robeson | 61 min |
| Aug 29, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Duplin | 61 min |
| Aug 29, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 59 min |
| Aug 29, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 64 min |
| Aug 29, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 64 min |
| Aug 29, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Randolph | 32 min |
| Aug 29, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Moore | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 33 min |
| Aug 29, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 64 min |
| Aug 29, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Sampson | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anson, Union | 62 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 | 38 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnston County4
- Harnett County4
- Cumberland County3
- Moore County3
- Pender County2
- Orange County2
- Chatham County2
- Nash County2
- Wake County2
- Lee County2
- Robeson County2
- Union County2
- Onslow County1
- Bertie County1
- Martin County1
- Gates County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Perquimans County1
- Hoke County1
- Pitt County1
- Lenoir County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Craven County1
- Jones County1
- Franklin County1
- Vance County1
- Halifax County1
- Northampton County1
- Person County1
- Warren County1
- Montgomery County1
- Stanly County1
- Bladen County1
- Columbus County1
- Duplin County1
- New Hanover County1
- Randolph County1
- Sampson County1
- Anson 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.