Alert archive / North Carolina
Red Flag Warnings in North Carolina
199 red flag warnings 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 red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.
Red Flag Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 199
- Busiest year
- 200733 red flag warnings
- Average year
- 11over 18 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.
- Alamance County36
- Forsyth County36
- Granville County36
- Guilford County36
- Orange County36
- Person County36
- Durham County35
- Anson County34
- Chatham County34
- Davidson County34
- Randolph County34
- Richmond County34
- Vance County34
- Wake County34
- Warren County34
- Franklin County33
- Harnett County33
- Hoke County33
- Lee County33
- Montgomery County33
- Moore County33
- Scotland County33
- Stanly County33
- Catawba County33
- Cumberland County32
- Iredell County32
- Halifax County31
- Alexander County31
- Burke County31
- Cabarrus County31
- Cleveland County31
- Davie County31
- Gaston County31
- Lincoln County31
- McDowell County31
- Rowan County31
- Stokes County31
- Edgecombe County30
- Nash County30
- Wilson County30
60 more counties
- Caldwell County30
- Caswell County30
- Mecklenburg County30
- Polk County30
- Rockingham County30
- Rutherford County30
- Johnston County29
- Union County29
- Yadkin County29
- Sampson County28
- Surry County28
- Greene County27
- Martin County27
- Pitt County27
- Wayne County27
- Wilkes County27
- Bladen County25
- Duplin County25
- Lenoir County25
- Robeson County25
- Buncombe County22
- Columbus County22
- Henderson County22
- Beaufort County22
- Jones County22
- Washington County22
- Transylvania County21
- Dare County21
- Hyde County21
- Pamlico County21
- Tyrrell County21
- Haywood County20
- Jackson County20
- Madison County20
- Mitchell County20
- Yancey County20
- Swain County19
- Graham County18
- Macon County18
- Avery County18
- Northampton County18
- Bertie County17
- Hertford County17
- Gates County16
- Chowan County14
- Camden County13
- Pasquotank County13
- Perquimans County13
- Alleghany County12
- Ashe County12
- Currituck County12
- Watauga County12
- Pender County10
- Brunswick County9
- New Hanover County9
- Cherokee County8
- Clay County8
- Carteret County3
- Craven County3
- Onslow County3
The latest red flag warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:27 PM EDT | Red Flag Warning | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 32 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. Rebuilt daily.