Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2006
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, May 2006
28 tornado warnings in May 2006. 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 28
- Busiest day
- May 14, 200621 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Iredell, Mecklenburg | 25 min |
| May 14, 2:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 49 min |
| May 14, 2:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson, Stanly | 41 min |
| May 14, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Rowan | 19 min |
| May 14, 3:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 14, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 19 min |
| May 14, 3:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 14, 3:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham | 26 min |
| May 14, 4:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Washington | 41 min |
| May 14, 4:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 24 min |
| May 14, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 21 min |
| May 14, 5:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange | 16 min |
| May 14, 5:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham | 28 min |
| May 14, 6:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 23 min |
| May 14, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 25 min |
| May 14, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham | 27 min |
| May 14, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Nash | 47 min |
| May 14, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee | 35 min |
| May 14, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham | 17 min |
| May 14, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 33 min |
| May 14, 7:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 32 min |
| May 14, 8:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 26 min |
| May 14, 8:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 51 min |
| May 14, 9:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 30 min |
| May 15, 2:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pitt | 39 min |
| May 18, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 15 min |
| May 20, 9:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 51 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County3
- Franklin County3
- Rowan County2
- Durham County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Wake County2
- Chatham County2
- Pitt County2
- Iredell County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Davidson County1
- Stanly County1
- Washington County1
- Bertie County1
- Orange County1
- Nash County1
- Lee County1
- Harnett County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Martin County1
- Beaufort County1
- Cherokee County1
- Gaston 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.