Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 1998

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, May 1998

34 tornado warnings in May 1998. 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
34
Busiest day
May 7, 199815 tornado warnings

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

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
May 1, 9:52 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQHertford33 min
May 4, 5:53 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven, Jones, Onslow32 min
May 7, 3:13 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXCherokee47 min
May 7, 3:54 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXClay31 min
May 7, 4:45 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCaswell30 min
May 7, 5:28 PM EDTTornado WarningMRXCherokee, Clay32 min
May 7, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPIredell47 min
May 7, 5:40 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPMcDowell45 min
May 7, 6:09 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAlexander46 min
May 7, 6:26 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPIredell49 min
May 7, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPLincoln46 min
May 7, 6:41 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth34 min
May 7, 7:06 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPRowan64 min
May 7, 7:19 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDavidson16 min
May 7, 7:27 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHGuilford33 min
May 7, 7:44 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHRandolph31 min
May 7, 7:54 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus46 min
May 7, 8:02 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKRockingham33 min
May 7, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHAlamance, Guilford32 min
May 7, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHChatham32 min
May 7, 8:39 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCaswell46 min
May 7, 11:30 PM EDTTornado WarningILMNew Hanover35 min
May 7, 11:53 PM EDTTornado WarningILMPender32 min
May 23, 1:28 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven32 min
May 23, 3:07 PM EDTTornado WarningILMNew Hanover33 min
May 26, 8:08 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth32 min
May 26, 10:15 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHMoore15 min
May 26, 10:29 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHLee31 min
May 27, 12:29 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHGranville, Person36 min
May 27, 3:51 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKStokes34 min
May 27, 4:21 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKRockingham49 min
May 27, 4:35 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHGranville, Person30 min
May 27, 5:18 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHVance, Warren32 min
May 27, 7:13 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHMontgomery, Richmond32 min

By county

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

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.