Alert archive / North Carolina
Heavy Snow Warnings in North Carolina
12 heavy snow warnings 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 heavy snow warnings reaches back to 2005.
Heavy Snow Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Heavy Snow Warnings
- 12
- Busiest year
- 20067 heavy snow warnings
- Average year
- 3over 4 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.
- Avery County8
- Mitchell County8
- Yancey County8
- Madison County7
- Graham County6
- Haywood County6
- Swain County6
- Ashe County3
- Watauga County3
- Jackson County2
- Alleghany County1
- Buncombe County1
- Caswell County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Macon County1
- Rockingham County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
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.