Alert archive / North Carolina / 1996
Weather alerts in North Carolina, August 1996
64 weather alerts in August 1996, 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 64
- Warnings
- 64
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 24, 199612 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 2, 8:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pitt | 116 min |
| Aug 2, 11:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 12:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Craven | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Catawba | 117 min |
| Aug 3, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 9:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 9:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 9:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 112 min |
| Aug 11, 4:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 7:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 9:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, McDowell, Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 9:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 9:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe, Watauga | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 1:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 5:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 4 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 8:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 26 min |
| Aug 16, 4:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 41 min |
| Aug 17, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 41 min |
| Aug 17, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 43 min |
| Aug 18, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell, Yancey | 29 min |
| Aug 23, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Swain | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 34 min |
| Aug 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 54 min |
| Aug 27, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 32 min |
| Aug 28, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 63 min |
| Aug 28, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 68 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 | 39 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 22 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Caldwell County7
- Burke County6
- Mecklenburg County5
- Catawba County3
- Brunswick County3
- Pitt County2
- Union County2
- Avery County2
- Mitchell County2
- Surry County2
- Wilkes County2
- Henderson County2
- Columbus County2
- Carteret County2
- Cherokee County2
- Cleveland County2
- Beaufort County1
- Craven County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Gaston County1
- New Hanover County1
- Pender County1
- McDowell County1
- Ashe County1
- Watauga County1
- Rockingham County1
- Alamance County1
- Durham County1
- Chatham County1
- Alexander County1
- Camden County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Lenoir County1
- Duplin County1
- Sampson County1
- Wake County1
- Yancey County1
- Swain County1
- Northampton County1
- Iredell 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.