Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Currituck County, North Carolina

3,560 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Currituck County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,560
Warnings
639
Watches
499
Advisories
787
Busiest year
2019206 alerts
Average year
89over 40 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, 50% of tornado reports in Currituck County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 12 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
20084175%1100%6 min
2010110100%0
201110370%450%15 min
2014110%10%
2017110%0
201820100%0
201940100%0
202020100%0
202140100%0
20224175%0
202410100%0
20252150%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
200814564%250%24 min
200917853%4100%22 min
201015847%2100%15 min
20116267%30%
20126517%475%23 min
20134325%0
20149811%367%9 min
20157443%0
201620100%0
201710550%333%25 min
20184175%1100%3 min
2019231630%1567%21 min
202011736%333%12 min
2021171512%10100%19 min
202218950%560%11 min
2023161225%475%22 min
202414936%2100%35 min
2025181233%4100%26 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008220%0
2010110%0
201610100%0
201920100%0
2020220%2100%32 min
2021330%5100%59 min
202310100%0
202411109%7100%127 min
2025440%888%60 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 22, 2:57 PM EDTCoastal Flood WarningAKQ5 days
Sep 4, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ52 min
Aug 24, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ22 min
Aug 20, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ18 min
Aug 11, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ43 min
Aug 10, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ46 min
Aug 10, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ48 min
Aug 10, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ48 min
Jul 28, 11:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningAKQ2 hr
Jul 28, 11:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ41 min
Jul 28, 10:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ55 min
Jul 19, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAKQ42 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.