Alert archive / North Carolina / High Wind Warnings
High Wind Warnings in North Carolina, 2011
10 high wind warnings in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Warnings
- 10
- Busiest month
- February4 high wind warnings
- Busiest day
- February 25, 20112 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 4:33 AM EST | High Wind Warning | RNK | Ashe, Watauga | 23 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:00 PM EST | High Wind Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:11 AM EST | High Wind Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 25, 4:27 AM EST | High Wind Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 15 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:43 AM EDT | High Wind Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 27 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:35 AM EDT | High Wind Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:25 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Sampson, Wayne and 1 more | 33 hr |
| Nov 23, 3:17 AM EST | High Wind Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 12 hr |
| Nov 23, 3:33 AM EST | High Wind Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, McDowell and 4 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 7, 2:25 PM EST | High Wind Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashe County5
- Watauga County5
- Alleghany County4
- Avery County2
- Buncombe County2
- Burke County2
- Caldwell County2
- Henderson County2
- McDowell County2
- Mitchell County2
- Polk County2
- Rutherford County2
- Yancey County2
- Surry County2
- Wilkes County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Halifax County2
- Johnston County2
- Nash County2
- Sampson County2
- Wayne County2
- Wilson County2
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Swain County1
- Transylvania County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Alamance County1
- Chatham County1
- Cumberland County1
- Durham County1
- Franklin County1
- Granville County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Lee County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Rebuilt daily.