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Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1991

30 tornado warnings in 1991. 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 1991. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
30
Busiest month
March11 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 29, 19916 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 2, 6:43 AM ESTTornado WarningMHXCamden, Pasquotank47 min
Mar 2, 10:34 AM ESTTornado WarningILMColumbus41 min
Mar 3, 1:11 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHPitt34 min
Mar 29, 3:45 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHLee30 min
Mar 29, 3:58 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHWake32 min
Mar 29, 4:55 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHCumberland35 min
Mar 29, 5:07 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHNorthampton8 min
Mar 29, 5:08 PM ESTTornado WarningMHXGates, Hertford37 min
Mar 29, 5:48 PM ESTTornado WarningMHXBertie42 min
Mar 29, 7:18 PM ESTTornado WarningMHXPasquotank, Perquimans27 min
Mar 29, 7:18 PM ESTTornado WarningMHXChowan27 min
Apr 9, 7:15 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPBurke, McDowell30 min
Apr 9, 7:39 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKYadkin51 min
Apr 9, 8:11 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKRowan34 min
Apr 29, 7:14 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland61 min
Apr 29, 7:42 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPLincoln48 min
Jun 19, 11:36 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPMecklenburg39 min
Jun 20, 9:47 AM EDTTornado WarningILMCarteret58 min
Jun 20, 8:28 PM EDTTornado WarningILMCarteret62 min
Jul 16, 12:27 PM EDTTornado WarningILMNew Hanover33 min
Jul 16, 4:18 PM EDTTornado WarningILMCarteret42 min
Jul 30, 1:40 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXPasquotank65 min
Aug 2, 5:24 PM EDTTornado WarningILMJones, Onslow66 min
Aug 7, 6:06 AM EDTTornado WarningILMCarteret69 min
Aug 10, 6:07 PM EDTTornado WarningILMRobeson68 min
Aug 17, 5:35 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBladen, Columbus55 min
Aug 18, 8:09 AM EDTTornado WarningILMOnslow51 min
Aug 18, 8:34 AM EDTTornado WarningILMPender26 min
Aug 20, 10:56 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXPerquimans34 min
Sep 25, 9:37 PM EDTTornado WarningILMCraven, Jones68 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. March 29, 19916tornado warnings
  2. March 2, 19912tornado warnings
  3. March 30, 19912tornado warnings
  4. April 9, 19912tornado warnings
  5. April 29, 19912tornado warnings
  6. July 16, 19912tornado warnings
  7. August 18, 19912tornado warnings
  8. March 3, 19911tornado warnings
  9. April 10, 19911tornado warnings
  10. June 19, 19911tornado warnings
  11. June 20, 19911tornado warnings
  12. June 21, 19911tornado 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.