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Flash Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2017

21 flash flood watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Watches
21
Busiest month
May6 flash flood watches
Busiest day
August 28, 20174 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 4:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchMRXCherokee, Clay47 hr
Apr 23, 4:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson48 hr
Apr 23, 4:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchMHXBeaufort, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pamlico and 1 more52 hr
May 21, 4:24 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchGSPAvery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Haywood, Henderson and 9 more18 hr
May 21, 4:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes18 hr
May 22, 1:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchGSPAlexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 12 more36 hr
May 23, 3:19 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson38 hr
May 24, 4:23 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchGSPAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more18 hr
May 24, 4:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more20 hr
Jun 5, 3:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchMRXCherokee, Clay14 hr
Jul 27, 3:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchAKQBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more42 hr
Aug 11, 8:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchAKQBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more23 hr
Aug 28, 3:19 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson24 hr
Aug 28, 3:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchMHXBeaufort, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Hyde, Jones and 6 more34 hr
Aug 28, 3:36 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchAKQBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 2 more41 hr
Aug 28, 10:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRAHCumberland, Edgecombe, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson, Wayne and 1 more17 hr
Sep 10, 4:36 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchGSPHenderson, Jackson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania47 hr
Oct 7, 2:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchGSPAvery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more37 hr
Oct 8, 4:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Watauga22 hr
Oct 23, 10:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Watauga9 hr
Dec 19, 3:36 PM ESTFlash Flood WatchMRXCherokee, Clay22 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

33 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 28, 20174flash flood watches
  2. April 23, 20172flash flood watches
  3. May 21, 20172flash flood watches
  4. May 24, 20172flash flood watches
  5. April 22, 20171flash flood watches
  6. May 22, 20171flash flood watches
  7. May 23, 20171flash flood watches
  8. June 5, 20171flash flood watches
  9. July 27, 20171flash flood watches
  10. August 12, 20171flash flood watches
  11. September 10, 20171flash flood watches
  12. October 7, 20171flash flood watches

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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.