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Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1993

32 tornado warnings in 1993. 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 1993. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
32
Busiest month
June15 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 4, 199312 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 27, 4:02 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHWake58 min
Mar 31, 4:56 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPCherokee34 min
Mar 31, 5:16 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPClay, Macon44 min
Mar 31, 6:13 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPTransylvania32 min
Mar 31, 7:22 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPRutherford53 min
Mar 31, 7:25 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPCleveland50 min
Mar 31, 9:06 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPMecklenburg69 min
Mar 31, 10:55 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKAlamance40 min
Apr 1, 2:51 AM ESTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus39 min
Apr 15, 6:25 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland, Gaston, Lincoln50 min
May 4, 3:19 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPLincoln26 min
May 19, 3:25 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPBuncombe35 min
Jun 4, 6:22 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWarren38 min
Jun 4, 6:51 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHPerson54 min
Jun 4, 7:09 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKDavidson, Davie51 min
Jun 4, 7:11 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHalifax34 min
Jun 4, 7:25 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHOrange35 min
Jun 4, 7:28 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKRowan47 min
Jun 4, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHChatham, Durham45 min
Jun 4, 7:37 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWake53 min
Jun 4, 7:40 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHEdgecombe65 min
Jun 4, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Nash42 min
Jun 4, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWilson55 min
Jun 4, 7:57 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKRandolph48 min
Jun 4, 8:08 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBertie67 min
Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHChatham, Moore62 min
Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHLee55 min
Jul 20, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningILMCarteret57 min
Aug 3, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDurham37 min
Aug 6, 3:07 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXHyde68 min
Aug 15, 3:43 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXWashington62 min
Aug 28, 1:26 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBrunswick49 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 4, 199312tornado warnings
  2. April 1, 19935tornado warnings
  3. March 31, 19933tornado warnings
  4. June 5, 19933tornado warnings
  5. March 27, 19931tornado warnings
  6. April 15, 19931tornado warnings
  7. May 4, 19931tornado warnings
  8. May 19, 19931tornado warnings
  9. July 20, 19931tornado warnings
  10. August 3, 19931tornado warnings
  11. August 6, 19931tornado warnings
  12. August 15, 19931tornado 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.