Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2005
49 tornado warnings in 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 49
- Busiest month
- July21 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- July 7, 200517 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 8:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 48 min |
| Jan 13, 9:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba | 38 min |
| Jan 13, 10:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry, Yadkin | 175 days |
| Jan 13, 11:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Yadkin | 175 days |
| Jan 13, 11:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RNK | Yadkin | 175 days |
| Jan 14, 4:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange | 26 min |
| Jan 14, 4:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham | 13 min |
| Jan 14, 4:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 37 min |
| Jan 14, 5:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden | 169 days |
| Jan 14, 5:33 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 17 min |
| Jan 14, 6:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 14 min |
| Jan 14, 9:52 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Greene, Pitt | 53 days |
| Mar 8, 10:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 5:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 43 min |
| Mar 23, 5:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford | 57 min |
| Mar 28, 8:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 10:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 26 min |
| May 20, 6:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 18 min |
| Jul 7, 6:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 8:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Iredell | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 12:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 1:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander | 58 min |
| Jul 7, 1:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Iredell | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 15 min |
| Jul 7, 3:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 3:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 23 min |
| Jul 7, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 4:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 4:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Vance | 19 min |
| Jul 7, 5:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Caswell | 28 min |
| Jul 7, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Randolph | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 8:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 1:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 16 min |
| Jul 13, 1:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 24 min |
| Jul 29, 6:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 2:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Polk | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 1:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 42 min |
| Aug 29, 9:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Macon | 47 min |
| Aug 30, 1:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Clay | 28 min |
| Aug 30, 1:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry | 25 min |
| Aug 30, 2:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Polk | 22 min |
| Oct 7, 4:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 13 min |
| Oct 22, 2:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir | 23 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Yadkin County3
- Forsyth County3
- Carteret County3
- Cleveland County2
- Catawba County2
- Surry County2
- Person County2
- Greene County2
- Guilford County2
- Columbus County2
- Iredell County2
- Stokes County2
- Rockingham County2
- Polk County2
- Orange County1
- Durham County1
- Granville County1
- Camden County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Beaufort County1
- Pitt County1
- Wayne County1
- Hyde County1
- Alexander County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Vance County1
- Caswell County1
- Montgomery County1
- Randolph County1
- Harnett County1
- Northampton County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Rutherford County1
- Macon County1
- Clay County1
- Onslow County1
- Lenoir County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.