Alert archive / North Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in North Carolina, January 1997
16 weather alerts in January 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 January 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 16
- Warnings
- 10
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- January 5, 19977 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Graham, Swain | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Graham and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 69 min |
| Jan 5, 3:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon, Swain | 64 min |
| Jan 5, 4:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 6:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Scotland | 5 hr |
| Jan 16, 4:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 16, 6:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 47 min |
| Jan 16, 6:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 32 min |
| Jan 16, 8:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 39 min |
| Jan 16, 9:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 23 min |
| Jan 24, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Robeson, Sampson and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Jan 24, 9:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Clay | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 9:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon | 62 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 | 10 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County4
- Swain County3
- Clay County3
- Macon County3
- Scotland County3
- Graham County2
- Haywood County2
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Camden County2
- Columbus County2
- Cumberland County2
- Currituck County2
- Dare County2
- Greene County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Pitt County2
- Robeson County2
- Sampson County2
- Madison County1
- Mitchell County1
- Yancey County1
- Buncombe County1
- Catawba County1
- Cleveland County1
- Henderson County1
- Jackson County1
- McDowell County1
- Polk County1
- Rutherford County1
- Transylvania County1
- Beaufort County1
- Bertie County1
- Carteret County1
- Chowan County1
- Craven County1
- Duplin County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Franklin County1
- Gates County1
23 more counties
- Halifax County1
- Harnett County1
- Hertford County1
- Hoke County1
- Hyde County1
- Johnston County1
- Jones County1
- Lee County1
- Lenoir County1
- Martin County1
- Nash County1
- New Hanover County1
- Northampton County1
- Onslow County1
- Pamlico County1
- Pender County1
- Perquimans County1
- Tyrrell County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilson County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19961998
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.