Alert archive / North Carolina / 1987
Weather alerts in North Carolina, May 1987
19 weather alerts in May 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 May 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 19
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19875 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 1, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 56 min |
| May 1, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 58 min |
| May 1, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 63 min |
| May 1, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anson | 60 min |
| May 1, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke | 35 min |
| May 2, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 56 min |
| May 2, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 61 min |
| May 2, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 29 min |
| May 2, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne, Wilson | 63 min |
| May 3, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 60 min |
| May 3, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 28 min |
| May 4, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pamlico | 48 min |
| May 12, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford, Rockingham | 59 min |
| May 13, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 56 min |
| May 15, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 60 min |
| May 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 65 min |
| May 23, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Clay, Macon | 56 min |
| May 23, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 62 min |
| May 29, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 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 | 19 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnston County2
- Polk County1
- Henderson County1
- Burke County1
- Anson County1
- Hoke County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Robeson County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilson County1
- Cumberland County1
- Pamlico County1
- Guilford County1
- Rockingham County1
- Moore County1
- Rowan County1
- Pender County1
- Clay County1
- Macon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Buncombe County1
Nearby
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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.