Alert archive / North Carolina / 1998
Weather alerts in North Carolina, February 1998
29 weather alerts in February 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 February 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 29
- Warnings
- 27
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 17, 199818 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 3, 7:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 5 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 7:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 7:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Robeson | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 8:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 6 hr |
| Feb 3, 8:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Feb 3, 11:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Watauga | 3 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 49 min |
| Feb 4, 6:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chowan | 11 hr |
| Feb 4, 8:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chowan | 9 hr |
| Feb 17, 5:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 6:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 2 hr |
| Feb 17, 6:25 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Randolph | 90 min |
| Feb 17, 6:32 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow | 118 min |
| Feb 17, 6:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Jones | 115 min |
| Feb 17, 6:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 115 min |
| Feb 17, 6:38 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore | 2 hr |
| Feb 17, 7:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 48 min |
| Feb 17, 7:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus, Pender | 2 hr |
| Feb 17, 7:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 2 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 46 min |
| Feb 17, 9:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 9:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 41 min |
| Feb 17, 10:27 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 11:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 11:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mitchell | 5 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham and 28 more | 5 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 | 4 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 23 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Transylvania County4
- Columbus County4
- Henderson County3
- Polk County3
- Jackson County3
- Brunswick County3
- New Hanover County3
- Pender County3
- Craven County3
- Rutherford County2
- Haywood County2
- Robeson County2
- Watauga County2
- Chowan County2
- Stanly County2
- Montgomery County2
- Randolph County2
- Carteret County2
- Jones County2
- Onslow County2
- Moore County2
- Duplin County2
- Avery County2
- Mitchell County2
- Wilkes County2
- Bladen County1
- Wake County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Alexander County1
- Ashe County1
- Buncombe County1
- Burke County1
- Caldwell County1
- Catawba County1
- Cleveland County1
- Gaston County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Madison County1
28 more counties
- Yancey County1
- Alamance County1
- Alleghany County1
- Anson County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caswell County1
- Chatham County1
- Cumberland County1
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Durham County1
- Forsyth County1
- Guilford County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Iredell County1
- Lee County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Richmond County1
- Rockingham County1
- Rowan County1
- Scotland County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Union County1
- Yadkin 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.