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Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1988

33 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest month
May14 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 9, 19885 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 8:45 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHWake35 min
Mar 26, 9:55 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHWilson35 min
May 10, 3:18 PM EDTTornado WarningILMOnslow32 min
May 10, 4:17 PM EDTTornado WarningILMCraven33 min
May 10, 6:22 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGaston38 min
May 10, 6:49 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPMecklenburg56 min
May 16, 10:16 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXPerquimans34 min
May 17, 2:40 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland35 min
May 17, 3:45 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPMecklenburg30 min
May 23, 8:27 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion33 min
May 23, 9:18 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion27 min
May 24, 4:11 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion34 min
May 24, 7:57 PM EDTTornado WarningILMCraven, Jones63 min
May 24, 8:54 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXTyrrell56 min
May 24, 9:07 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBertie, Hertford63 min
May 25, 5:14 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXHyde46 min
Jun 2, 6:11 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHCumberland49 min
Jun 8, 5:12 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHPitt33 min
Jun 9, 2:53 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHarnett52 min
Jun 9, 3:11 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHarnett34 min
Jun 9, 3:28 PM EDTTornado WarningILMSampson42 min
Jun 9, 3:56 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus19 min
Jun 9, 7:42 PM EDTTornado WarningILMOnslow48 min
Jun 17, 6:45 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBertie, Hertford65 min
Jun 26, 9:56 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHarnett34 min
Aug 28, 4:03 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKIredell57 min
Aug 28, 4:11 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCatawba34 min
Aug 28, 4:22 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKAlexander68 min
Nov 17, 10:38 AM ESTTornado WarningMHXDare67 min
Nov 17, 11:34 AM ESTTornado WarningMHXCurrituck41 min
Nov 28, 1:45 AM ESTTornado WarningRAHFranklin30 min
Nov 28, 2:00 AM ESTTornado WarningRAHHalifax30 min
Nov 28, 5:50 AM ESTTornado WarningMHXDare40 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 9, 19885tornado warnings
  2. May 10, 19884tornado warnings
  3. May 24, 19884tornado warnings
  4. May 17, 19883tornado warnings
  5. May 25, 19883tornado warnings
  6. August 28, 19883tornado warnings
  7. November 28, 19883tornado warnings
  8. March 27, 19882tornado warnings
  9. November 17, 19882tornado warnings
  10. June 2, 19881tornado warnings
  11. June 8, 19881tornado warnings
  12. June 17, 19881tornado warnings

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.