Alert archive / North Carolina / 2002
Weather alerts in North Carolina, March 2002
55 weather alerts in March 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 March 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 55
- Warnings
- 52
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 31, 200228 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 9, 6:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 19 min |
| Mar 13, 5:10 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Mar 13, 5:10 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Mar 13, 8:20 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 40 min | |
| Mar 13, 8:20 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 40 min | |
| Mar 13, 8:20 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 40 min | |
| Mar 13, 9:02 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| Mar 13, 9:02 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| Mar 16, 10:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 11:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond, Scotland | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 57 min |
| Mar 16, 4:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 63 min |
| Mar 17, 8:27 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Madison | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 8:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood, Swain | 36 min |
| Mar 17, 8:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 9:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 36 min |
| Mar 18, 6:38 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Madison | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 6:40 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Mar 26, 6:40 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Mar 26, 6:40 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 min | |
| Mar 26, 8:00 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 30 min | |
| Mar 26, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Burke, Cabarrus and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 6:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Wake | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 7:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Duplin, Edgecombe and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 58 min |
| Mar 31, 1:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 17 min |
| Mar 31, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 2:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 2:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 2:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 2:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 2:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 51 min |
| Mar 31, 2:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 3:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 3:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 53 min |
| Mar 31, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 4:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 59 min |
| Mar 31, 4:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 59 min |
| Mar 31, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 5:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 6:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 85 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 | 35 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 11 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Robeson County8
- Sampson County6
- Cumberland County5
- Wake County4
- Wayne County4
- Scotland County3
- Bladen County3
- Davidson County2
- Rutherford County2
- Cleveland County2
- Richmond County2
- Madison County2
- Anson County2
- Cabarrus County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Montgomery County2
- Rowan County2
- Stanly County2
- Union County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Chatham County2
- Duplin County2
- Greene County2
- Johnston County2
- Lenoir County2
- Martin County2
- Pitt County2
- Washington County2
- Haywood County1
- Swain County1
- Jackson County1
- Buncombe County1
- Alexander County1
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Burke County1
- Caldwell County1
- Catawba County1
- Davie County1
- Forsyth County1
34 more counties
- Gaston County1
- Guilford County1
- Iredell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Randolph County1
- Rockingham County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
- Bertie County1
- Camden County1
- Chowan County1
- Currituck County1
- Franklin County1
- Gates County1
- Halifax County1
- Hertford County1
- Nash County1
- Northampton County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Perquimans County1
- Vance County1
- Warren County1
- Wilson County1
- Beaufort County1
- Columbus County1
- Craven County1
- Hoke County1
- Jones County1
- Onslow County1
- Pamlico County1
- Pender County1
- Lee 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.