Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2003
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, July 2003
22 tornado warnings in July 2003. 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 July 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 22
- Busiest day
- July 2, 200314 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 12:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 12:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 1:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Pender | 24 min |
| Jul 2, 1:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Moore | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 2:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 2:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 31 min |
| Jul 2, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 5:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 24 min |
| Jul 2, 7:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Robeson | 29 min |
| Jul 2, 8:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Gates | 31 min |
| Jul 2, 8:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 7:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 27 min |
| Jul 12, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 45 min |
| Jul 12, 8:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Pasquotank | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 5:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 38 min |
| Jul 24, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden | 18 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Onslow County3
- Bladen County2
- Craven County2
- Camden County2
- Carteret County1
- Columbus County1
- Pender County1
- Moore County1
- Jones County1
- Harnett County1
- Sampson County1
- Duplin County1
- Robeson County1
- Gates County1
- Greene County1
- Lenoir County1
- Pitt County1
- Dare County1
- Cleveland County1
- Gaston County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Brunswick County1
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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.