Weather alerts in North Carolina, 2011

5,659 weather alerts in 2011, 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 5,659
Warnings: 1,859
Watches: 190
Advisories: 810
Busiest month: June1,118 alerts
Busiest day: September 6, 2011140 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

5,659 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.

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	1,254
Tornado Warning	224
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	51
Tornado Watch	38
Mesoscale Discussion	218
Special Weather Statement	2,551
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	52
Flash Flood Warning	120
River Flood Warning	28
Flash Flood Watch	23
Flood Watch	15
Areal Flood Advisory	332
River Flood Advisory	10
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	15
Winter Storm Watch	11
Freezing Rain Advisory	6
Winter Weather Advisory	50
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	6
Excessive Heat Watch	4
Heat Advisory	61
Cold
Freeze Warning	23
Freeze Watch	16
Frost Advisory	36
Wind Chill Advisory	3
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	10
High Wind Watch	3
Lake Wind Advisory	33
Wind Advisory	62
Fire
Red Flag Warning	15
Fire Weather Watch	16
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	49
Dense Smoke Advisory	18
Freezing Fog Advisory	1
Tropical
Hurricane Warning	4
Tropical Storm Warning	4
Hurricane Watch	3
Tropical Storm Watch	4
Hurricane Local Statement	2
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Advisory	23
High Surf Advisory	14
Coastal Flood Statement	9
Rip Current Statement	20
Marine
Gale Warning	19
Special Marine Warning	85
Gale Watch	6
Low Water Advisory	3
Marine Dense Fog Advisory	1
Small Craft Advisory	108

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 2010 2012

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.