Alert archive / North Carolina / 1988
Weather alerts in North Carolina, August 1988
19 weather alerts in August 1988, 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 19
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 16, 19884 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Sampson | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Aug 15, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alexander | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rowan | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Pitt | 61 min |
| Aug 18, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hertford | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Chowan, Gates, Hertford | 37 min |
| Aug 20, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Rowan | 57 min |
| Aug 20, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Randolph | 64 min |
| Aug 20, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Rowan | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Iredell, Rowan | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Iredell | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba | 34 min |
| Aug 28, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Alexander | 68 min |
| Aug 29, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 59 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 | 16 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rowan County4
- Alexander County2
- Hertford County2
- Davidson County2
- Iredell County2
- Sampson County1
- Duplin County1
- Jones County1
- Onslow County1
- Cherokee County1
- Wilkes County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Dare County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Pitt County1
- Chowan County1
- Gates County1
- Randolph County1
- Catawba County1
- Bladen County1
- Columbus 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.