Alert archive / North Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in North Carolina, February 1997
28 weather alerts in February 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 February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 28
- Warnings
- 24
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 21, 199713 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 14, 4:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 50 min |
| Feb 14, 11:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 54 min |
| Feb 15, 12:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 45 min |
| Feb 15, 12:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 56 min |
| Feb 15, 1:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones | 50 min |
| Feb 21, 11:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Union | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 5:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 5:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 35 min |
| Feb 21, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell, Mecklenburg | 35 min |
| Feb 21, 5:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chatham, Davidson and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Union | 37 min |
| Feb 21, 5:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Stanly | 47 min |
| Feb 21, 6:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 12 min |
| Feb 21, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 25 min |
| Feb 21, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham, Columbus and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 8:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 29 min |
| Feb 21, 9:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 9:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 65 min |
| Feb 28, 10:24 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 12:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 1:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:18 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 4 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 | 19 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County4
- Craven County3
- Cherokee County3
- Haywood County3
- Brunswick County2
- New Hanover County2
- Pender County2
- Onslow County2
- Jones County2
- Jackson County2
- Gaston County2
- Catawba County2
- Lincoln County2
- Iredell County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Anson County2
- Cabarrus County2
- Chatham County2
- Hoke County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moore County2
- Randolph County2
- Stanly County2
- Duplin County2
- Greene County2
- Harnett County2
- Lenoir County2
- Pitt County2
- Wake County2
- Carteret County1
- Buncombe County1
- Clay County1
- Graham County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Swain County1
- Transylvania County1
- Henderson County1
- Cleveland County1
- Alexander County1
32 more counties
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Forsyth County1
- Guilford County1
- Richmond County1
- Rowan County1
- Scotland County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
- Alamance County1
- Bladen County1
- Caswell County1
- Columbus County1
- Cumberland County1
- Durham County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Franklin County1
- Granville County1
- Halifax County1
- Johnston County1
- Lee County1
- Martin County1
- Nash County1
- Northampton County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Robeson County1
- Sampson County1
- Vance County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilson 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.