Alert archive / North Carolina
Weather alerts in North Carolina, 2016
5,414 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 5,414
- Warnings
- 1,417
- Watches
- 139
- Advisories
- 1,019
- Busiest month
- July1,388 alerts
- Busiest day
- February 24, 2016120 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
5,414 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.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- New Hanover County258
- Wake County240
- Pender County208
- Brunswick County199
- Cumberland County198
- Harnett County194
- Durham County192
- Johnston County190
- Hoke County186
- Mecklenburg County186
- Chatham County182
- Franklin County180
- Sampson County180
- Bladen County179
- Union County179
- Columbus County178
- Beaufort County176
- Pitt County175
- Orange County174
- Nash County170
- Granville County168
- Robeson County166
- Duplin County162
- Jones County162
- Hyde County159
- Moore County159
- Iredell County159
- Rockingham County158
- Dare County157
- Edgecombe County157
- Guilford County156
- Wayne County156
- Cabarrus County155
- Martin County155
- Halifax County154
- Craven County153
- Wilson County153
- Currituck County152
- Pamlico County152
- Caswell County152
60 more counties
- Alamance County151
- Lenoir County149
- Randolph County147
- Caldwell County146
- Rowan County146
- Northampton County146
- Stokes County145
- McDowell County145
- Lee County144
- Warren County143
- Davidson County142
- Person County142
- Burke County142
- Davie County141
- Vance County141
- Catawba County141
- Surry County140
- Greene County139
- Forsyth County138
- Richmond County138
- Scotland County138
- Rutherford County138
- Wilkes County135
- Montgomery County134
- Bertie County132
- Carteret County132
- Avery County132
- Lincoln County131
- Onslow County131
- Ashe County130
- Yadkin County129
- Gaston County129
- Polk County128
- Hertford County128
- Gates County127
- Buncombe County125
- Alexander County124
- Cleveland County124
- Henderson County124
- Swain County123
- Madison County122
- Tyrrell County120
- Anson County119
- Transylvania County119
- Watauga County118
- Chowan County116
- Washington County115
- Stanly County115
- Pasquotank County114
- Alleghany County114
- Jackson County113
- Perquimans County112
- Camden County111
- Mitchell County107
- Haywood County106
- Yancey County105
- Graham County104
- Macon County102
- Cherokee County85
- Clay County76
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.