Alert archive / North Carolina / 1990
Weather alerts in North Carolina, August 1990
65 weather alerts in August 1990, 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 1990. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 65
- Warnings
- 65
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 21, 199017 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, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 5:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Carteret | 66 min |
| Aug 14, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Greene, Pitt | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 42 min |
| Aug 15, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 10:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Pitt | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 11:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Greene | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Orange | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 58 min |
| Aug 16, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Moore, Scotland | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Richmond | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 63 min |
| Aug 20, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 67 min |
| Aug 20, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell | 62 min |
| Aug 21, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stanly | 35 min |
| Aug 21, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 56 min |
| Aug 21, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 55 min |
| Aug 21, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 40 min |
| Aug 21, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon, Swain | 65 min |
| Aug 21, 4:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 61 min |
| Aug 21, 4:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Polk, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 4:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 4:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 66 min |
| Aug 21, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 66 min |
| Aug 24, 11:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Carteret | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 11:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Currituck | 68 min |
| Aug 25, 4:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell | 4 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Beaufort, Craven | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Forsyth, Guilford | 66 min |
| Aug 29, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alamance, Guilford | 54 min |
| Aug 29, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 32 min |
| Aug 29, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Northampton | 40 min |
| Aug 29, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Bertie, Hertford | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Northampton | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Gates | 69 min |
| Aug 29, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Camden, Pasquotank | 67 min |
| Aug 29, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Currituck | 67 min |
| Aug 29, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 67 min |
| Aug 29, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 50 min |
| Aug 29, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 38 min |
| Aug 29, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 48 min |
| Aug 30, 12:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 12:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 58 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 | 53 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 9 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mecklenburg County5
- Cherokee County4
- Johnston County3
- Nash County3
- Wake County3
- Guilford County3
- Buncombe County3
- Henderson County3
- Tyrrell County2
- Carteret County2
- Wayne County2
- Greene County2
- Pitt County2
- Alamance County2
- Chatham County2
- Moore County2
- Scotland County2
- Burke County2
- McDowell County2
- Polk County2
- Bladen County2
- Currituck County2
- Wilson County2
- Northampton County2
- Franklin County1
- Union County1
- Orange County1
- Davidson County1
- Randolph County1
- Hoke County1
- Richmond County1
- Hyde County1
- Stanly County1
- Catawba County1
- Lincoln County1
- Cleveland County1
- Macon County1
- Swain County1
- Rutherford County1
- Haywood 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.