Alert archive / North Carolina
Hurricane Watches in North Carolina
26 hurricane 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 hurricane watches reaches back to 2005.
Hurricane Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Hurricane Watches
- 26
- Busiest year
- 20084 hurricane watches
- Average year
- 3over 10 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.
- Dare County12
- Pamlico County12
- Beaufort County11
- Hyde County11
- Camden County6
- Chowan County6
- Currituck County6
- Pasquotank County6
- Perquimans County6
- Tyrrell County6
- Washington County6
- New Hanover County6
- Pender County6
- Bertie County5
- Brunswick County5
- Jones County3
- Carteret County2
- Craven County2
- Onslow County2
- Gates County1
- Hertford County1
- Bladen County1
- Columbus County1
- Duplin County1
- Greene County1
- Lenoir County1
- Martin County1
- Pitt County1
- Robeson County1
- Sampson County1
- Wayne 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.