Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Stanly County, North Carolina

3,043 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Stanly County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,043
Warnings
725
Watches
441
Advisories
652
Busiest year
2011201 alerts
Average year
76over 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, 86% of tornado reports in Stanly County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 80% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
20113233%3100%24 min
201210100%0
201720100%0
201810100%0
201920100%10%
20202150%1100%1 min
202110100%0
20222150%2100%5 min
202310100%0
202420100%0
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
2008221341%1989%20 min
2009231535%14100%23 min
2010211433%2190%19 min
2011191616%1788%16 min
2012161413%1573%19 min
2013121017%1392%18 min
20148538%4100%13 min
201511918%8100%18 min
2016161319%475%31 min
2017151033%18100%18 min
2018161413%1275%21 min
2019161413%1173%27 min
2020261735%2095%22 min
20218363%729%19 min
2022151220%875%8 min
20239722%540%18 min
202416156%5100%22 min
2025151313%683%26 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200830100%0
20092150%475%34 min
20105420%1385%98 min
201140100%0
2012440%6100%79 min
20135340%8100%100 min
2014110%3100%17 min
20156517%2100%184 min
20164250%0
201740100%0
20183233%333%137 min
2019110%2100%52 min
20209544%1471%67 min
20224250%1100%69 min
20234250%450%15 min
20246350%2100%122 min
20256517%17100%79 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 18, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH44 min
Sep 5, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH59 min
Aug 28, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH55 min
Aug 28, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH44 min
Aug 28, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH41 min
Aug 21, 5:33 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatRAH3 hr
Aug 21, 5:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH3 hr
Aug 21, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH67 min
Aug 21, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH64 min
Aug 11, 6:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH2 hr
Aug 6, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH51 min
Aug 4, 9:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAH3 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.