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High Wind Watches in North Carolina, 2012
10 high wind watches in 2012. 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 in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- October5 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- October 27, 20122 high wind watches
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 10, 3:02 PM EST | High Wind Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 13 hr |
| Oct 26, 5:31 PM EDT | High Wind Watch | AKQ | Currituck | 35 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:50 PM EDT | High Wind Watch | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 14 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:56 PM EDT | High Wind Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 12 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:13 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 13 hr |
| Oct 28, 5:21 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | GSP | Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Graham and 10 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:08 PM EST | High Wind Watch | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 14 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:19 PM EST | High Wind Watch | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more | 12 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:43 PM EST | High Wind Watch | GSP | Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain | 24 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:52 PM EST | High Wind Watch | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 19 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alleghany County3
- Ashe County3
- Watauga County3
- Burke County3
- Caldwell County3
- McDowell County3
- Graham County3
- Haywood County3
- Jackson County3
- Macon County3
- Swain County3
- Avery County2
- Mitchell County2
- Yancey County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Buncombe County2
- Henderson County2
- Madison County2
- Polk County2
- Rutherford County2
- Transylvania County2
- Currituck County1
- Alexander County1
- Catawba County1
- Surry County1
- Wilkes 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.