Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Cumberland County, North Carolina

3,954 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cumberland County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,954
Warnings
1,037
Watches
541
Advisories
796
Busiest year
2011227 alerts
Average year
96over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 100% of tornado reports in Cumberland County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 19 minutes before, and 83% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200850100%0
20095260%7100%15 min
201010100%0
20116350%3100%35 min
201220100%0
20142150%1100%1 min
201640100%0
201710100%0
20182150%0
201940100%0
20209189%0
202110100%0
202210100%0
202440100%0
202510100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008361947%1694%32 min
2009251348%11100%20 min
2010161225%9100%20 min
2011322619%2789%24 min
2012292031%3194%34 min
201313931%786%46 min
2014241633%2080%22 min
2015252020%2391%18 min
2016262215%2665%24 min
2017241058%10100%26 min
2018292031%1560%17 min
2019161038%863%13 min
2020161038%580%53 min
202110730%580%22 min
2022201335%12100%29 min
2023271833%2282%18 min
202417947%1776%25 min
2025312519%2378%13 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088538%786%39 min
2009220%650%53 min
20105180%1100%32 min
2011220%2100%96 min
20125340%6100%44 min
2013440%3100%54 min
20143233%3100%53 min
20154175%3100%55 min
2016171041%1292%90 min
20172150%333%27 min
20186517%10100%938 min
20194325%475%19 min
20206433%3100%55 min
202110100%0
20226517%5100%36 min
20237357%1242%44 min
202410820%978%90 min
2025330%3100%31 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 18, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH39 min
Sep 18, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH49 min
Sep 5, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH51 min
Sep 5, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH50 min
Aug 28, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH38 min
Aug 27, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH46 min
Aug 24, 5:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH35 min
Aug 24, 4:47 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH21 min
Aug 21, 3:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH3 hr
Aug 21, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH49 min
Aug 21, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH54 min
Aug 20, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH48 min

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.