Alert archive / North Carolina / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in North Carolina, 2017
8 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- May5 flood watches
- Busiest day
- April 22, 20173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2:57 PM EDT | Flood Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 61 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:11 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 64 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:11 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more | 64 hr |
| May 4, 2:57 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more | 18 hr |
| May 11, 6:19 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 30 hr |
| May 12, 12:37 PM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 13 hr |
| May 23, 3:22 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more | 23 hr |
| May 23, 3:41 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 41 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alleghany County5
- Ashe County5
- Watauga County5
- Surry County4
- Wilkes County4
- Caswell County3
- Rockingham County3
- Stokes County3
- Yadkin County3
- Alamance County2
- Anson County2
- Chatham County2
- Cumberland County2
- Davidson County2
- Durham County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Forsyth County2
- Franklin County2
- Granville County2
- Guilford County2
- Halifax County2
- Harnett County2
- Hoke County2
- Johnston County2
- Lee County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moore County2
- Nash County2
- Orange County2
- Person County2
- Randolph County2
- Richmond County2
- Sampson County2
- Scotland County2
- Stanly County2
- Vance County2
- Wake County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Wilson County2
28 more counties
- Alexander County1
- Avery County1
- Buncombe County1
- Burke County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caldwell County1
- Catawba County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davie County1
- Gaston County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Henderson County1
- Iredell County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Mitchell County1
- Polk County1
- Rowan County1
- Rutherford County1
- Swain County1
- Transylvania County1
- Union County1
- Yancey 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.