Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Edgecombe County, North Carolina

3,592 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Edgecombe County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,592
Warnings
818
Watches
558
Advisories
720
Busiest year
2011220 alerts
Average year
88over 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, 91% of tornado reports in Edgecombe County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 11 minutes before, and 77% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%0
20093167%0
201010100%0
20115180%0
2012110%0
201310100%0
20147186%1100%31 min
201720100%0
20183167%0
20194175%3100%6 min
202010100%0
202110100%0
202210100%0
2023110%1100%12 min
202411282%1100%1 min
20254175%580%12 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008231248%683%30 min
2009261350%14100%33 min
201016944%1776%21 min
2011261831%1794%27 min
2012282125%15100%20 min
20137529%580%19 min
2014161319%683%21 min
201512925%0
2016201335%6100%37 min
201710730%1100%6 min
2018171135%6100%23 min
2019251828%19100%22 min
20208538%1100%31 min
20218625%2100%11 min
2022221341%1182%20 min
2023231917%7100%27 min
2024131023%1100%16 min
2025191426%683%18 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083233%10%
20094325%2100%92 min
20105420%0
20115420%683%197 min
20123167%10%
2013220%2100%40 min
20143233%2100%75 min
2015110%1100%4 min
2016550%5100%76 min
2017110%0
2018220%2100%104 min
20205420%3100%341 min
202120100%20%
20233167%0
2024220%1100%58 min
20253167%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 21, 8:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH72 min
Sep 5, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH23 min
Sep 4, 9:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH86 min
Sep 4, 8:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH51 min
Sep 4, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH44 min
Sep 4, 7:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH3 hr
Sep 4, 7:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH67 min
Sep 4, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH38 min
Sep 4, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH40 min
Sep 2, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH50 min
Aug 20, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH38 min
Aug 20, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH42 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.