Alert archive / North Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in North Carolina, August 1997
57 weather alerts in August 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 August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 57
- Warnings
- 54
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 5, 199717 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 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 55 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 65 min |
| Aug 5, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 54 min |
| Aug 5, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Onslow | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 5:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Pender | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston | 17 min |
| Aug 5, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 58 min |
| Aug 5, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 33 min |
| Aug 15, 1:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 37 min |
| Aug 15, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Watauga | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Onslow | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 26 min |
| Aug 18, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 25 min |
| Aug 20, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance | 48 min |
| Aug 20, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 35 min |
| Aug 20, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Wake | 38 min |
| Aug 20, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 28 min |
| Aug 20, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 37 min |
| Aug 20, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 49 min |
| Aug 20, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Pamlico | 32 min |
| Aug 20, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 44 min |
| Aug 20, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 44 min |
| Aug 21, 7:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 91 min |
| Aug 25, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 40 min |
| Aug 28, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 55 min |
| Aug 28, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 48 min |
| Aug 28, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 40 min |
| Aug 28, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 44 min |
| Aug 28, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 42 min |
| Aug 28, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Yancey | 53 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 | 50 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Beaufort County6
- Brunswick County6
- Craven County6
- Onslow County6
- Duplin County5
- Greene County5
- Lenoir County5
- Pamlico County5
- Pender County5
- Pitt County5
- Washington County5
- Carteret County4
- Johnston County4
- Jones County4
- New Hanover County4
- Sampson County4
- Warren County4
- Anson County3
- Bladen County3
- Chatham County3
- Columbus County3
- Currituck County3
- Dare County3
- Franklin County3
- Granville County3
- Guilford County3
- Halifax County3
- Hyde County3
- Stanly County3
- Tyrrell County3
- Vance County3
- Wake County3
- Wayne County3
- Alamance County2
- Bertie County2
- Camden County2
- Chowan County2
- Cumberland County2
- Durham County2
- Edgecombe County2
35 more counties
- Gates County2
- Harnett County2
- Hertford County2
- Hoke County2
- Lee County2
- Martin County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moore County2
- Nash County2
- Northampton County2
- Orange County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Perquimans County2
- Person County2
- Randolph County2
- Richmond County2
- Robeson County2
- Wilson County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Cleveland County2
- Cabarrus County2
- Union County2
- Caswell County1
- Rockingham County1
- Scotland County1
- Rutherford County1
- Avery County1
- Watauga County1
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Forsyth County1
- Rowan County1
- Yadkin County1
- Gaston County1
- Yancey 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. Rebuilt daily.