Alert archive / North Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in North Carolina, March 1997
54 weather alerts in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 54
- Warnings
- 49
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 5, 199724 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 7:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 7:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 10:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison | 61 min |
| Mar 5, 3:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell, Yancey | 51 min |
| Mar 5, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery | 52 min |
| Mar 5, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Watauga | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 4:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 4:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 60 min |
| Mar 5, 4:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 49 min |
| Mar 5, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 5:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Yadkin | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 5:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 61 min |
| Mar 5, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 5:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes | 33 min |
| Mar 5, 5:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 5:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 65 min |
| Mar 5, 5:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 31 min |
| Mar 5, 6:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 52 min |
| Mar 5, 6:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 33 min |
| Mar 5, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 6:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 6:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 33 min |
| Mar 5, 6:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 6:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 7:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 7:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 16 min |
| Mar 5, 7:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 7:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 29 min |
| Mar 5, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 40 min |
| Mar 5, 8:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 40 min |
| Mar 5, 8:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates, Hertford | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 9:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 9:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 10:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 48 min |
| Mar 5, 10:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 32 min |
| Mar 13, 10:46 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Transylvania | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Macon | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 8:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 48 min |
| Mar 14, 8:18 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Watauga | 7 hr |
| Mar 29, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 12:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 56 min |
| Mar 29, 1:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Swain | 42 min |
| Mar 29, 2:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 5:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Scotland, Union | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 51 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 | 42 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County4
- Transylvania County4
- Cherokee County3
- Graham County3
- Haywood County3
- Rockingham County3
- Stokes County3
- Swain County3
- Watauga County3
- Guilford County3
- Granville County3
- Ashe County2
- Alleghany County2
- Avery County2
- Caldwell County2
- Clay County2
- Forsyth County2
- Henderson County2
- Macon County2
- Madison County2
- Mitchell County2
- Surry County2
- Wilkes County2
- Yadkin County2
- Yancey County2
- Alamance County2
- Bertie County2
- Caswell County2
- Durham County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Franklin County2
- Gates County2
- Hertford County2
- Johnston County2
- Nash County2
- Northampton County2
- Orange County2
- Person County2
- Vance County2
- Wake County2
48 more counties
- Warren County2
- Wilson County2
- Camden County2
- Chowan County2
- Currituck County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Perquimans County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Alexander County1
- Buncombe County1
- Burke County1
- Catawba County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davie County1
- Iredell County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Polk County1
- Rutherford County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Chatham County1
- Cumberland County1
- Davidson County1
- Gaston County1
- Halifax County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Lee County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Randolph County1
- Rowan County1
- Stanly County1
- Wayne County1
- Martin County1
- Beaufort County1
- Craven County1
- Dare County1
- Hyde County1
- Lenoir County1
- Pamlico County1
- Pitt County1
- Washington County1
- Brunswick County1
- Scotland County1
- Union County1
- Carteret 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.