Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Duplin County, North Carolina

3,383 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Duplin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,383
Warnings
818
Watches
500
Advisories
577
Busiest year
2011206 alerts
Average year
85over 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, 73% of tornado reports in Duplin County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 21 minutes before, and 73% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088275%250%4 min
20096183%250%4 min
201010100%0
201111555%3100%26 min
201210100%0
201310100%0
2014110%367%32 min
201510100%0
20163233%2100%26 min
201710100%0
20189278%0
20198188%0
2020110%0
20212150%2100%17 min
202310100%10%
202440100%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
2008422052%2190%23 min
200927774%989%19 min
20107614%650%21 min
2011161413%3158%21 min
2012231726%1894%22 min
201311645%6100%13 min
201411918%1155%37 min
20158450%967%17 min
201612925%933%12 min
20178363%683%23 min
20187614%8100%23 min
201911918%8100%43 min
202013838%786%26 min
202111736%3100%30 min
2022181328%1080%19 min
2023211433%2085%23 min
2024211433%14100%26 min
2025241633%19100%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%1100%68 min
20164325%2100%651 min
2017110%2100%159 min
20185180%0
201930100%0
2020330%1100%58 min
202110100%0
20222150%0
20238625%10100%140 min
20247614%7100%89 min
2025330%0

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 5, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX50 min
Sep 5, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX57 min
Aug 21, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX30 min
Aug 21, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX52 min
Aug 17, 2:34 PM EDTExtreme Heat WarningMHX29 hr
Aug 17, 2:01 AM EDTExtreme Heat WarningMHX18 hr
Aug 11, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX41 min
Jul 29, 2:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX32 min
Jul 29, 12:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX52 min
Jul 12, 11:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMHX2 hr
Jul 10, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX50 min
Jul 10, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX56 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.