Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Watches
Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2016
31 flash flood watches in 2016. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 31
- Busiest month
- September12 flash flood watches
- Busiest day
- September 1, 20165 flash flood watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 4:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 11 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 16 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 31 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 19 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more | 33 hr |
| Jun 6, 9:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 19 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Union | 8 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Anson, Cumberland, Hoke, Richmond, Sampson, Scotland and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes and 1 more | 36 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 18 more | 41 hr |
| Aug 3, 10:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph | 8 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 55 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RNK | Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes | 9 hr |
| Sep 1, 4:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 42 hr |
| Sep 1, 10:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more | 45 hr |
| Sep 1, 12:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 34 hr |
| Sep 1, 12:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 19 more | 39 hr |
| Sep 1, 2:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 48 hr |
| Sep 14, 3:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 12 hr |
| Sep 19, 9:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | MHX | Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell | 21 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 48 hr |
| Sep 23, 9:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 9 hr |
| Sep 29, 9:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 9 hr |
| Sep 29, 10:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Cumberland, Edgecombe, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Lee and 6 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 29, 10:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | MHX | Duplin, Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 8 hr |
| Oct 6, 10:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 59 hr |
| Oct 6, 3:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | MHX | Beaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more | 60 hr |
| Oct 6, 9:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 24 more | 53 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 59 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 41 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County7
- Cabarrus County6
- Mecklenburg County6
- New Hanover County6
- Gaston County5
- Rowan County5
- Brunswick County5
- Pender County5
- Ashe County4
- Watauga County4
- Alexander County4
- Avery County4
- Buncombe County4
- Burke County4
- Caldwell County4
- Catawba County4
- Cleveland County4
- Davie County4
- Henderson County4
- Iredell County4
- Lincoln County4
- McDowell County4
- Mitchell County4
- Polk County4
- Rutherford County4
- Transylvania County4
- Yancey County4
- Dare County4
- Duplin County4
- Greene County4
- Hyde County4
- Lenoir County4
- Martin County4
- Pitt County4
- Tyrrell County4
- Bladen County4
- Columbus County4
- Robeson County4
- Cumberland County4
- Hoke County4
55 more counties
- Richmond County4
- Sampson County4
- Scotland County4
- Wayne County4
- Alleghany County3
- Wilkes County3
- Jackson County3
- Macon County3
- Beaufort County3
- Jones County3
- Pamlico County3
- Washington County3
- Anson County3
- Edgecombe County3
- Harnett County3
- Johnston County3
- Lee County3
- Moore County3
- Wilson County3
- Bertie County3
- Camden County3
- Chowan County3
- Currituck County3
- Gates County3
- Hertford County3
- Northampton County3
- Pasquotank County3
- Perquimans County3
- Surry County2
- Graham County2
- Haywood County2
- Madison County2
- Swain County2
- Davidson County2
- Guilford County2
- Randolph County2
- Chatham County2
- Durham County2
- Franklin County2
- Granville County2
- Halifax County2
- Montgomery County2
- Nash County2
- Orange County2
- Stanly County2
- Vance County2
- Wake County2
- Warren County2
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Stokes County1
- Yadkin County1
- Forsyth County1
- Alamance County1
- Person County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.