Alert archive / North Carolina
High Wind Watches in North Carolina
136 high wind watches 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 136
- Busiest year
- 200714 high wind watches
- Average year
- 6over 21 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.
- Ashe County43
- Watauga County43
- Alleghany County37
- Avery County35
- Yancey County35
- Mitchell County34
- Burke County29
- Caldwell County29
- McDowell County29
- Buncombe County25
- Henderson County25
- Haywood County22
- Jackson County22
- Graham County21
- Transylvania County21
- Rutherford County21
- Swain County20
- Macon County19
- Madison County19
- Surry County18
- Wilkes County18
- Polk County17
- Cherokee County16
- Clay County16
- Dare County16
- Hyde County16
- Alexander County8
- Carteret County8
- Currituck County7
- Catawba County5
- Camden County5
- Pamlico County5
- Pasquotank County5
- Tyrrell County5
- Cleveland County4
- Cabarrus County3
- Davie County3
- Gaston County3
- Iredell County3
- Lincoln County3
53 more counties
- Mecklenburg County3
- Rowan County3
- Union County3
- Beaufort County3
- Edgecombe County3
- Halifax County3
- Johnston County3
- Nash County3
- Sampson County3
- Wayne County3
- Wilson County3
- Yadkin County3
- Jones County2
- Washington County2
- Cumberland County2
- Harnett County2
- Stokes County2
- Perquimans County2
- Duplin County1
- Greene County1
- Lenoir County1
- Martin County1
- Pitt County1
- Alamance County1
- Anson County1
- Caswell County1
- Chatham County1
- Davidson County1
- Durham County1
- Forsyth County1
- Franklin County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Hoke County1
- Lee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Rockingham County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Vance County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Brunswick County1
- Chowan County1
- Craven County1
- New Hanover County1
- Onslow County1
- Pender County1
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 1:04 PM EST | High Wind Watch | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson and 7 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:41 PM EST | High Wind Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 13 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:37 AM EST | High Wind Watch | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell | 22 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.