Alert archive / North Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in North Carolina, May 1997
54 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 54
- Warnings
- 49
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 1, 199721 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 36 min |
| May 1, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 31 min |
| May 1, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 41 min |
| May 1, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 28 min |
| May 1, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 27 min |
| May 1, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 46 min |
| May 1, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 28 min |
| May 1, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 33 min |
| May 1, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 35 min |
| May 1, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash, Wake | 34 min |
| May 1, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 45 min |
| May 1, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 37 min |
| May 1, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 52 min |
| May 1, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates, Hertford | 33 min |
| May 1, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 41 min |
| May 1, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin | 50 min |
| May 1, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates | 18 min |
| May 1, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 33 min |
| May 1, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wilson | 31 min |
| May 1, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 30 min |
| May 3, 5:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 5 hr |
| May 3, 7:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 34 min |
| May 3, 8:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 8:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 32 min |
| May 3, 10:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 35 min |
| May 3, 10:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 33 min |
| May 3, 10:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 43 min |
| May 3, 10:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 50 min |
| May 3, 10:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 29 min |
| May 3, 11:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates | 35 min |
| May 3, 11:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 35 min |
| May 3, 11:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 35 min |
| May 3, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 12 more | 3 hr |
| May 3, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 39 min |
| May 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 59 min |
| May 9, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 48 min |
| May 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 45 min |
| May 13, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 59 min |
| May 13, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 63 min |
| May 13, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Pamlico | 53 min |
| May 15, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell, Washington | 41 min |
| May 15, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 34 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank | 17 min |
| May 15, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 34 min |
| May 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 64 min |
| May 15, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan | 20 min |
| May 15, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 20 min |
| May 20, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 31 min |
| May 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 29 min |
| May 26, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 41 min |
| May 26, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 50 min |
| May 26, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 60 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 | 48 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pasquotank County8
- Wilson County8
- Camden County7
- Craven County7
- Gates County7
- Martin County7
- Pitt County7
- Washington County7
- Beaufort County6
- Bertie County6
- Chowan County6
- Currituck County6
- Edgecombe County6
- Onslow County6
- Greene County5
- Hertford County5
- Nash County5
- Pamlico County5
- Perquimans County5
- Tyrrell County5
- Jones County5
- Franklin County4
- Northampton County4
- Wake County4
- Johnston County4
- Brunswick County4
- Wayne County4
- Carteret County4
- Dare County4
- Hyde County4
- Durham County3
- Halifax County3
- Cumberland County3
- Duplin County3
- Hoke County3
- Lenoir County3
- Moore County3
- New Hanover County3
- Pender County3
- Sampson County3
22 more counties
- Granville County2
- Vance County2
- Warren County2
- Randolph County2
- Chatham County2
- Bladen County2
- Columbus County2
- Harnett County2
- Lee County2
- Robeson County2
- Davidson County1
- Iredell County1
- Cherokee County1
- Union County1
- Alamance County1
- Anson County1
- Montgomery County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Richmond County1
- Scotland County1
- Rockingham 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.