Alert archive / North Carolina / 1989
Weather alerts in North Carolina, February 1989
23 weather alerts in February 1989, 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 February 1989. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 23
- Warnings
- 23
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 21, 198923 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 10:16 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Moore | 59 min |
| Feb 21, 10:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 62 min |
| Feb 21, 10:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 62 min |
| Feb 21, 11:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 11:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 68 min |
| Feb 21, 11:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 61 min |
| Feb 21, 11:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 11:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance | 68 min |
| Feb 21, 11:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 11:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 11:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston | 69 min |
| Feb 21, 11:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 63 min |
| Feb 21, 12:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 59 min |
| Feb 21, 12:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Duplin, Sampson | 56 min |
| Feb 21, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 12:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus, Pender | 63 min |
| Feb 21, 12:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Northampton | 58 min |
| Feb 21, 1:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Bertie, Martin | 55 min |
| Feb 21, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 35 min |
| Feb 21, 1:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Chowan, Gates | 55 min |
| Feb 21, 2:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Perquimans | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 2:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Camden, Pasquotank | 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 | 13 |
| Tornado Warning | 10 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnston County2
- Moore County1
- Chatham County1
- Lee County1
- Orange County1
- Durham County1
- Wake County1
- Granville County1
- Franklin County1
- Vance County1
- Cumberland County1
- Warren County1
- Nash County1
- Wilson County1
- Wayne County1
- Duplin County1
- Sampson County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Greene County1
- Lenoir County1
- Pitt County1
- Halifax County1
- Columbus County1
- Pender County1
- Northampton County1
- Bertie County1
- Martin County1
- New Hanover County1
- Chowan County1
- Gates County1
- Perquimans County1
- Camden County1
- Pasquotank 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.