Alert archive / North Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in North Carolina, April 1997
45 weather alerts in April 1997, 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 April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 38
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 21, 199719 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Perquimans | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 11 min |
| Apr 21, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, Swain | 6 hr |
| Apr 21, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Robeson | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 39 min |
| Apr 21, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chowan and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 21, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 26 min |
| Apr 21, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 31 min |
| Apr 21, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 27 min |
| Apr 21, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 33 min |
| Apr 21, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 44 min |
| Apr 21, 5:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 5:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 37 min |
| Apr 21, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Robeson | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 50 min |
| Apr 21, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 39 min |
| Apr 21, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Graham | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 27 min |
| Apr 21, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 21, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 20 min |
| Apr 21, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 28 min |
| Apr 21, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anson, Beaufort, Carteret, Chatham, Craven, Cumberland and 26 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Orange | 28 min |
| Apr 21, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin | 27 min |
| Apr 21, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 10:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 51 min |
| Apr 21, 11:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Henderson, Mecklenburg, Polk and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbus | 4 hr |
| Apr 22, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 12:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 1:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 44 min |
| Apr 23, 4:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 8:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 10:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance | 67 min |
| Apr 28, 11:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 12:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 12:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Caswell | 3 hr |
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 | 29 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Craven County5
- Jones County5
- Cherokee County4
- Robeson County4
- Duplin County4
- Carteret County4
- Onslow County4
- Wayne County4
- Graham County3
- Bladen County3
- Beaufort County3
- Johnston County3
- Martin County3
- Pitt County3
- Sampson County3
- Wake County3
- Chowan County2
- Gates County2
- Perquimans County2
- Clay County2
- Macon County2
- Swain County2
- Brunswick County2
- Columbus County2
- Cumberland County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Greene County2
- Hoke County2
- Hyde County2
- Lenoir County2
- New Hanover County2
- Pamlico County2
- Pender County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Washington County2
- Wilson County2
- Cabarrus County2
- Cleveland County2
- Gaston County2
- Henderson County2
29 more counties
- Lincoln County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Polk County2
- Rutherford County2
- Transylvania County2
- Guilford County2
- Alamance County2
- Chatham County2
- Union County2
- Durham County2
- Caswell County2
- Bertie County1
- Buncombe County1
- Catawba County1
- Haywood County1
- Jackson County1
- McDowell County1
- Rowan County1
- Anson County1
- Dare County1
- Harnett County1
- Lee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Nash County1
- Richmond County1
- Stanly County1
- Orange County1
- Randolph 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.