Alert archive / North Carolina
Weather alerts in North Carolina, 2020
5,806 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 5,806
- Warnings
- 1,602
- Watches
- 181
- Advisories
- 1,360
- Busiest month
- August1,006 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 13, 2020144 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
5,806 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 County347
- Pender County265
- Mecklenburg County226
- Dare County219
- Wake County218
- Brunswick County217
- Wilkes County207
- Onslow County206
- Union County204
- Johnston County204
- Hyde County204
- Sampson County199
- Carteret County196
- Burke County192
- Currituck County191
- Surry County190
- Wayne County188
- Ashe County184
- Cumberland County184
- Harnett County184
- Henderson County183
- Caldwell County182
- Wilson County179
- Cabarrus County178
- Columbus County177
- Franklin County176
- Alleghany County175
- Bladen County175
- Robeson County172
- McDowell County170
- Cleveland County169
- Nash County169
- Watauga County166
- Transylvania County166
- Chatham County164
- Rockingham County163
- Gaston County163
- Rowan County162
- Polk County160
- Rutherford County160
60 more counties
- Halifax County160
- Iredell County159
- Catawba County158
- Davidson County156
- Craven County155
- Hoke County154
- Moore County154
- Randolph County153
- Anson County152
- Yadkin County152
- Lincoln County152
- Durham County150
- Camden County150
- Guilford County148
- Caswell County147
- Stokes County145
- Montgomery County145
- Edgecombe County145
- Richmond County144
- Lee County144
- Hertford County143
- Buncombe County142
- Stanly County141
- Perquimans County140
- Pasquotank County140
- Northampton County139
- Scotland County138
- Orange County138
- Davie County136
- Jones County136
- Haywood County135
- Granville County134
- Forsyth County134
- Bertie County133
- Lenoir County133
- Warren County132
- Jackson County131
- Swain County131
- Alamance County131
- Chowan County130
- Gates County130
- Duplin County130
- Avery County129
- Macon County129
- Yancey County126
- Vance County125
- Beaufort County125
- Madison County124
- Alexander County124
- Pitt County123
- Pamlico County119
- Mitchell County118
- Martin County116
- Graham County114
- Person County114
- Washington County113
- Greene County105
- Tyrrell County100
- Cherokee County98
- Clay County91
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.