Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2008
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, May 2008
50 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
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- Busiest day
- May 9, 200824 tornado warnings
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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 8, 8:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 49 min |
| May 8, 8:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry | 40 min |
| May 8, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry | 51 min |
| May 8, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 32 min |
| May 8, 9:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 33 min |
| May 8, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 47 min |
| May 8, 9:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin | 52 min |
| May 8, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 40 min |
| May 8, 10:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 44 min |
| May 8, 10:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Davie | 47 min |
| May 8, 11:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford | 51 min |
| May 8, 11:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 41 min |
| May 8, 11:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 56 min |
| May 9, 12:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 49 min |
| May 9, 12:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry, Yadkin | 42 min |
| May 9, 12:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 36 min |
| May 9, 12:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance | 19 min |
| May 9, 1:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 47 min |
| May 9, 2:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 35 min |
| May 9, 7:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 18 min |
| May 9, 8:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford | 31 min |
| May 9, 8:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 44 min |
| May 9, 8:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde | 44 min |
| May 9, 10:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Dare | 28 min |
| May 11, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford | 50 min |
| May 11, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 44 min |
| May 11, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln | 36 min |
| May 11, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 53 min |
| May 11, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 25 min |
| May 11, 5:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Hertford, Northampton | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 35 min |
| May 11, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Onslow | 34 min |
| May 11, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Hertford | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 46 min |
| May 11, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Hertford | 33 min |
| May 11, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 42 min |
| May 11, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 40 min |
| May 11, 7:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 48 min |
| May 11, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Pamlico | 44 min |
| May 11, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 44 min |
| May 11, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 39 min |
| May 11, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Currituck | 28 min |
| May 11, 8:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven | 26 min |
| May 11, 8:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Hyde | 29 min |
| May 11, 8:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 43 min |
| May 20, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Wake | 30 min |
| May 20, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wake | 33 min |
| May 20, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg | 38 min |
| May 20, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 26 min |
| May 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Lenoir | 30 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Onslow County5
- Craven County5
- Surry County4
- Guilford County4
- Cabarrus County4
- Chowan County4
- Hertford County4
- Jones County4
- Alexander County3
- Iredell County3
- Alamance County3
- Gaston County3
- Mecklenburg County3
- Bertie County3
- Gates County3
- Pasquotank County3
- Lincoln County3
- Carteret County3
- Caldwell County2
- Yadkin County2
- Davie County2
- Rowan County2
- Davidson County2
- Forsyth County2
- Granville County2
- Person County2
- Perquimans County2
- Hyde County2
- Cleveland County2
- Catawba County2
- Currituck County2
- Harnett County2
- Wake County2
- Stokes County1
- Randolph County1
- Wilkes County1
- Caswell County1
- Rockingham County1
- Halifax County1
- Beaufort 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.