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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 41 min |
| Aug 10, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pitt | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 10:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 12:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 12:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Scotland | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 1:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 1:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 17 min |
| Aug 26, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 18 min |
| Aug 27, 7:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Hoke | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 9:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 20 min |
| Aug 27, 9:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 10:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 12:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 23 min |
| Aug 27, 12:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 12:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Randolph | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 1:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 1:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 2:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Nash | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 2:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 8:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 52 min |
| Aug 28, 1:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wilson | 35 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nash County5
- Sampson County4
- Johnston County3
- Guilford County3
- Randolph County3
- Wilson County3
- Jones County2
- Union County2
- Chatham County2
- Franklin County2
- Wake County2
- Duplin County2
- Pitt County1
- Bladen County1
- Scotland County1
- Columbus County1
- Henderson County1
- Transylvania County1
- Hoke County1
- Cumberland County1
- Harnett County1
- Onslow County1
- Lee County1
- Halifax County1
- Durham County1
- Alamance County1
- Lenoir 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.