Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2008

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, August 2008

32 tornado warnings in August 2008. 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 August 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
32
Busiest day
August 27, 200822 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
Aug 7, 5:19 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones41 min
Aug 10, 9:25 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXPitt29 min
Aug 26, 10:30 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion30 min
Aug 26, 12:29 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBladen61 min
Aug 26, 12:37 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHScotland38 min
Aug 26, 1:16 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion36 min
Aug 26, 1:57 PM EDTTornado WarningILMColumbus17 min
Aug 26, 3:32 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPHenderson, Transylvania18 min
Aug 27, 7:48 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHHoke27 min
Aug 27, 9:10 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHCumberland, Sampson20 min
Aug 27, 9:48 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHHarnett27 min
Aug 27, 10:45 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHJohnston, Sampson30 min
Aug 27, 12:37 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHGuilford, Randolph23 min
Aug 27, 12:38 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHGuilford47 min
Aug 27, 12:50 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones, Onslow25 min
Aug 27, 12:56 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHRandolph34 min
Aug 27, 1:01 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHChatham44 min
Aug 27, 1:23 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHNash, Wilson37 min
Aug 27, 1:29 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHGuilford, Randolph46 min
Aug 27, 1:41 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake34 min
Aug 27, 1:55 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHNash, Wilson35 min
Aug 27, 2:10 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake35 min
Aug 27, 2:14 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHSampson31 min
Aug 27, 2:31 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHNash27 min
Aug 27, 2:38 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHLee37 min
Aug 27, 2:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHSampson47 min
Aug 27, 2:48 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHalifax42 min
Aug 27, 3:42 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDurham27 min
Aug 27, 4:03 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHAlamance, Chatham42 min
Aug 27, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDuplin49 min
Aug 27, 8:53 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDuplin, Lenoir52 min
Aug 28, 1:10 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHWilson35 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.