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High Wind Warnings in North Carolina, 2008

23 high wind warnings in 2008. 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 high wind warnings reaches back to 2005.

High Wind Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

High Wind Warnings
23
Busiest month
December5 high wind warnings
Busiest day
January 29, 20082 high wind warnings

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
Jan 29, 3:40 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningGSPAvery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey32 hr
Jan 29, 5:00 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Watauga30 hr
Jan 29, 7:11 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningMRXCherokee, Clay12 hr
Feb 6, 2:41 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningMRXCherokee, Clay16 hr
Feb 9, 3:29 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes46 hr
Feb 9, 4:25 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningGSPAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 8 more45 hr
Mar 7, 2:03 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Watauga34 hr
Mar 7, 3:24 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningGSPAvery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, McDowell and 5 more33 hr
May 11, 4:11 AM EDTHigh Wind WarningGSPAvery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more38 hr
May 11, 11:08 AM EDTHigh Wind WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes32 hr
May 12, 10:16 AM EDTHigh Wind WarningAKQCurrituck8 hr
May 12, 10:46 AM EDTHigh Wind WarningMHX17 hr
Sep 5, 3:40 PM EDTHigh Wind WarningRAHCumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke and 8 more20 hr
Sep 23, 3:09 PM EDTHigh Wind WarningMHXDare, Hyde44 hr
Sep 24, 4:11 AM EDTHigh Wind WarningAKQCurrituck32 hr
Oct 24, 5:53 PM EDTHigh Wind WarningGSPUnion2 hr
Oct 24, 6:39 PM EDTHigh Wind WarningRAHAnson, Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland and 1 more93 min
Nov 5, 4:27 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningMHX12 hr
Dec 7, 5:16 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningRNKAshe, Watauga6 hr
Dec 9, 3:52 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningMRXCherokee, Clay18 hr
Dec 24, 9:12 AM ESTHigh Wind WarningMRXCherokee, Clay13 hr
Dec 30, 2:21 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes31 hr
Dec 30, 2:46 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningGSPAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 8 more27 hr

By county

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

13 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 29, 20082high wind warnings
  2. February 9, 20082high wind warnings
  3. March 7, 20082high wind warnings
  4. May 11, 20082high wind warnings
  5. May 12, 20082high wind warnings
  6. October 24, 20082high wind warnings
  7. December 30, 20082high wind warnings
  8. January 30, 20081high wind warnings
  9. February 6, 20081high wind warnings
  10. September 5, 20081high wind warnings
  11. September 23, 20081high wind warnings
  12. September 24, 20081high wind warnings

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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.