Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Nash County, North Carolina

3,806 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Nash County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,806
Warnings
1,034
Watches
544
Advisories
763
Busiest year
2011233 alerts
Average year
93over 41 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 77% of tornado reports in Nash County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 62% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087357%250%14 min
20095340%367%26 min
20102150%1100%13 min
20116350%0
20122150%0
201320100%0
20143167%1100%3 min
201720100%0
20184175%0
20196433%250%20 min
202020100%0
202120100%0
202210100%0
20232150%1100%6 min
202414564%3100%11 min
202510100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008281450%12100%21 min
2009301840%1889%19 min
2010251636%771%25 min
2011342624%3294%23 min
2012373116%21100%17 min
201311918%6100%20 min
2014272122%1070%24 min
2015201525%13100%25 min
2016342138%1070%26 min
2017161131%1486%23 min
2018201525%1385%17 min
2019412832%12100%22 min
2020241633%1173%27 min
202111918%8100%29 min
2022392244%1675%18 min
2023272411%13100%23 min
2024181422%888%10 min
2025332621%12100%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085180%0
20094250%1100%40 min
2010110%0
20116517%4100%116 min
20123233%1100%64 min
20136517%3100%47 min
20142150%0
2015110%0
2016440%1100%166 min
2017110%2100%9 min
2018330%475%56 min
20208538%3100%59 min
20213167%0
20223233%0
20233167%0
20244325%0
20256350%3100%12 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 21, 8:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH72 min
Sep 5, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH51 min
Sep 5, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH42 min
Sep 5, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH24 min
Sep 4, 9:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH86 min
Sep 4, 8:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH51 min
Sep 4, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH44 min
Sep 4, 7:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH67 min
Sep 2, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH25 min
Sep 2, 7:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH39 min
Sep 2, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH50 min
Aug 20, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH38 min

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.