Alert archive / North Carolina / 2002
Weather alerts in North Carolina, August 2002
92 weather alerts in August 2002, 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 92
- Warnings
- 92
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 24, 200211 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Wilkes | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Clay | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 5:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham | 51 min |
| Aug 15, 1:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Ashe | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 24 min |
| Aug 15, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 28 min |
| Aug 17, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 5:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Catawba | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 60 min | |
| Aug 18, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 22 min |
| Aug 18, 8:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Aug 18, 9:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Aug 18, 9:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Aug 19, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 25 min |
| Aug 20, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 79 min | |
| Aug 20, 3:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank | 27 min |
| Aug 20, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 32 min |
| Aug 20, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 61 min |
| Aug 20, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 47 min | |
| Aug 20, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Jones | 52 min |
| Aug 20, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 38 min |
| Aug 20, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 66 min |
| Aug 22, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 49 min |
| Aug 22, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 40 min |
| Aug 24, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 43 min | |
| Aug 24, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 59 min |
| Aug 24, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 25 min |
| Aug 24, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 58 min |
| Aug 24, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 28 min |
| Aug 26, 4:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Vance | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 7:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Warren | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 36 min | |
| Aug 26, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 12:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 62 min |
| Aug 27, 10:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Harnett | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 24 min |
| Aug 27, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 33 min | |
| Aug 27, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 33 min | |
| Aug 27, 8:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 9:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston | 106 min |
| Aug 27, 9:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 27 min |
| Aug 28, 1:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Sampson | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Sampson | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret | 111 min |
| Aug 28, 1:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Carteret | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 8:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax | 65 min |
| Aug 29, 6:14 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 46 min | |
| Aug 30, 9:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 114 min |
| Aug 30, 9:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 111 min |
| Aug 30, 10:20 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 85 min | |
| Aug 30, 10:20 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 85 min | |
| Aug 30, 11:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash, Warren | 89 min |
| Aug 30, 12:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Warren | 97 min |
| Aug 30, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Aug 30, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 45 min | |
| Aug 31, 1:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 42 min | |
| Aug 31, 2:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 41 min | |
| Aug 31, 5:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wilson | 116 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 | 45 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 26 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 17 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Halifax County6
- Nash County5
- Mecklenburg County4
- Sampson County4
- Catawba County3
- Columbus County3
- Pender County3
- Dare County3
- Warren County3
- Edgecombe County3
- Harnett County2
- Gaston County2
- Stokes County2
- Rockingham County2
- Onslow County2
- Iredell County2
- Bladen County2
- Vance County2
- Wilson County2
- Cumberland County2
- Carteret County2
- Wilkes County1
- Caswell County1
- Henderson County1
- Clay County1
- Chatham County1
- Ashe County1
- Burke County1
- Wake County1
- Scotland County1
- Pitt County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Lenoir County1
- Beaufort County1
- Jones County1
- Hyde County1
- Currituck County1
- Rutherford County1
- Rowan County1
- Cabarrus 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. Rebuilt daily.