Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Graham County, North Carolina

2,463 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Graham County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,463
Warnings
420
Watches
421
Advisories
811
Busiest year
2011185 alerts
Average year
67over 37 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, of tornado reports in Graham County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201220100%0
201410100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811736%8100%35 min
200911736%580%31 min
20103233%367%16 min
2011171512%1090%15 min
201210640%367%42 min
20133233%333%13 min
20146517%4100%26 min
2015220%1100%51 min
20163233%1100%14 min
20174325%2100%23 min
20188625%4100%29 min
20193233%2100%11 min
20206350%2100%22 min
20213233%1100%23 min
20226433%3100%19 min
202310730%9100%28 min
20246517%2100%12 min
20257357%1100%60 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20093233%1100%90 min
2010110%0
2019110%0
20202150%0
202310100%0
202410100%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 3, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP30 min
Aug 17, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP53 min
Aug 11, 11:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP24 min
Jul 28, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningGSP49 min
Jul 28, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP51 min
Jul 28, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP42 min
Jul 23, 8:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSP3 hr
Jul 3, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP35 min
Jul 3, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP56 min
Mar 27, 2:27 PM EDTRed Flag WarningGSP32 hr
Mar 16, 4:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP64 min
Jan 30, 11:37 AM ESTExtreme Cold WarningGSP49 hr

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.