Alert archive / North Carolina / 1998
Weather alerts in North Carolina, August 1998
38 weather alerts in August 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 38
- Warnings
- 35
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 26, 199812 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 9, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 9:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Macon | 119 min |
| Aug 16, 12:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Wilkes | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Surry | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 95 min |
| Aug 26, 5:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 23 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Pender | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 24 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender, Robeson | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde, Tyrrell | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pitt | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford | 19 min |
| Aug 26, 7:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wilson | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 12:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 17 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 27, 10:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 7 hr |
| Aug 27, 10:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Pitt | 7 hr |
| Aug 27, 10:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 7 hr |
| Aug 30, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Pender | 117 min |
| Aug 30, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 65 min |
| Aug 30, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 61 min |
| Aug 30, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 63 min |
| Aug 30, 10:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 58 min |
| Aug 30, 10:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 12:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Robeson | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 46 min |
| Aug 31, 5:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 62 min |
| Aug 31, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 32 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 | 12 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 19 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brunswick County7
- New Hanover County6
- Pender County6
- Pitt County6
- Beaufort County5
- Bladen County5
- Jones County5
- Onslow County5
- Duplin County4
- Bertie County4
- Columbus County4
- Craven County4
- Hyde County4
- Pamlico County4
- Robeson County4
- Tyrrell County4
- Camden County3
- Carteret County3
- Chowan County3
- Currituck County3
- Dare County3
- Greene County3
- Martin County3
- Pasquotank County3
- Perquimans County3
- Sampson County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- Hertford County3
- Cumberland County3
- Lenoir County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Gates County2
- Halifax County2
- Northampton County2
- Wilson County2
- Franklin County1
- Macon County1
- Alleghany County1
- Wilkes 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.