Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Pamlico County, North Carolina

2,857 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pamlico County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,857
Warnings
621
Watches
504
Advisories
576
Busiest year
2008163 alerts
Average year
71over 40 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, 100% of tornado reports in Pamlico County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 3 minutes before, and 56% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200830100%0
20093167%0
20112150%0
201210100%0
201410100%0
20184325%1100%6 min
20193233%0
20206433%2100%1 min
20223167%0
202310100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008261158%3100%43 min
200919668%1100%12 min
20109633%3100%42 min
201111918%475%38 min
201211736%1100%5 min
20136433%1100%8 min
201412925%5100%18 min
201512558%0
201610460%2100%20 min
20179456%0
201810730%2100%29 min
2019191426%3100%27 min
202010730%3100%9 min
20217529%0
2022161319%250%55 min
2023231535%250%25 min
202416944%3100%29 min
2025131115%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2010110%0
201110100%0
20162150%1100%322 min
2017110%0
20186267%0
2019110%0
20202150%0
20222150%1100%73 min
20245340%0
2025110%1100%21 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 5, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX65 min
Sep 5, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX50 min
Aug 24, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX44 min
Aug 24, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX34 min
Aug 17, 2:34 PM EDTExtreme Heat WarningMHX29 hr
Aug 17, 2:01 AM EDTExtreme Heat WarningMHX18 hr
Aug 10, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX27 min
Jul 28, 11:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX30 min
Jul 27, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX49 min
Jul 27, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX50 min
Jul 21, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMHX41 min
Jul 13, 1:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMHX4 hr

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.