Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2009
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, May 2009
29 tornado warnings in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 29
- Busiest day
- May 5, 200913 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 3, 8:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 49 min |
| May 5, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 45 min |
| May 5, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 36 min |
| May 5, 4:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt | 51 min |
| May 5, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 48 min |
| May 5, 4:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Lenoir, Pitt | 50 min |
| May 5, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson | 18 min |
| May 5, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 47 min |
| May 5, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Martin, Pitt | 22 min |
| May 5, 5:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Wake | 49 min |
| May 5, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 40 min |
| May 5, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson | 26 min |
| May 5, 6:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 46 min |
| May 5, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 26 min |
| May 6, 10:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania | 40 min |
| May 6, 10:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Yancey | 46 min |
| May 6, 3:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 21 min |
| May 6, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 41 min |
| May 6, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 42 min |
| May 6, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 39 min |
| May 6, 5:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 48 min |
| May 6, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Davie, Rowan | 25 min |
| May 7, 5:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Lenoir, Pitt | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico | 49 min |
| May 7, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 42 min |
| May 7, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 63 min |
| May 7, 6:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico | 52 min |
| May 7, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico | 41 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Craven County7
- Beaufort County6
- Lenoir County5
- Pitt County5
- Nash County4
- Wilson County4
- Wake County3
- Pamlico County3
- Duplin County2
- Greene County2
- Johnston County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Buncombe County2
- Henderson County2
- Catawba County2
- Iredell County2
- Davie County2
- Rowan County2
- Caswell County1
- Rockingham County1
- Wayne County1
- Jones County1
- Martin County1
- Chatham County1
- Durham County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Union County1
- Franklin County1
- Haywood County1
- Transylvania County1
- McDowell County1
- Yancey County1
- Lincoln County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davidson County1
- Forsyth County1
- Onslow 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.