Alert archive / North Carolina
Heat Advisories in North Carolina
894 heat advisories since 1986. 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 heat advisories reaches back to 2005.
Heat Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Heat Advisories
- 894
- Busiest year
- 2026135 heat advisories
- Average year
- 41over 22 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jones County191
- Sampson County190
- Cumberland County189
- Columbus County188
- Pamlico County185
- Duplin County184
- Hyde County183
- Bladen County182
- Wayne County181
- Beaufort County180
- Lenoir County178
- Dare County176
- Hoke County176
- Johnston County175
- Robeson County173
- Scotland County173
- Harnett County172
- Greene County170
- Tyrrell County170
- Washington County168
- Pitt County167
- Wilson County164
- Martin County155
- Edgecombe County154
- Nash County154
- Brunswick County149
- Wake County146
- Pender County146
- New Hanover County145
- Lee County144
- Moore County141
- Halifax County140
- Franklin County137
- Richmond County134
- Chatham County129
- Durham County127
- Warren County123
- Chowan County121
- Perquimans County121
- Pasquotank County120
45 more counties
- Bertie County119
- Currituck County119
- Camden County118
- Anson County115
- Gates County113
- Hertford County113
- Orange County110
- Northampton County108
- Montgomery County104
- Onslow County99
- Stanly County98
- Craven County98
- Vance County95
- Granville County93
- Union County86
- Carteret County82
- Mecklenburg County79
- Cabarrus County73
- Person County58
- Alamance County54
- Gaston County53
- Randolph County50
- Caswell County49
- Davidson County43
- Forsyth County42
- Guilford County42
- Rockingham County41
- Rowan County38
- Davie County36
- Lincoln County35
- Iredell County31
- Cleveland County29
- Stokes County26
- Catawba County23
- Rutherford County19
- Polk County18
- Yadkin County17
- Alexander County16
- Surry County12
- Burke County11
- Caldwell County11
- McDowell County11
- Wilkes County11
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
The latest heat advisories
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2:38 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 28 hr |
| Sep 4, 2:06 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RAH | Anson, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Lee and 7 more | 28 hr |
| Sep 4, 2:06 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Hyde and 5 more | 28 hr |
| Sep 4, 1:34 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 28 hr |
| Sep 4, 12:10 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 6 hr |
| Sep 4, 1:04 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 19 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:07 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 28 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:04 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 30 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:00 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 30 hr |
| Sep 3, 1:53 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 30 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:17 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 24 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:15 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | GSP | Union | 30 hr |
Nearby
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.