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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 8:56 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCaswell, Rockingham49 min
May 5, 3:30 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDuplin, Lenoir45 min
May 5, 3:39 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWayne36 min
May 5, 4:09 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pitt51 min
May 5, 4:12 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHJohnston, Nash, Wilson48 min
May 5, 4:55 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Lenoir, Pitt50 min
May 5, 4:58 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHEdgecombe, Nash, Wilson18 min
May 5, 5:28 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHJohnston, Nash, Wilson47 min
May 5, 5:40 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Martin, Pitt22 min
May 5, 5:41 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHChatham, Durham, Wake49 min
May 5, 5:50 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union40 min
May 5, 6:10 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHEdgecombe, Nash, Wilson26 min
May 5, 6:29 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWake46 min
May 5, 7:13 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Wake26 min
May 6, 10:05 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPBuncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania40 min
May 6, 10:44 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Yancey46 min
May 6, 3:09 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCatawba, Lincoln21 min
May 6, 4:19 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland41 min
May 6, 5:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCatawba, Iredell42 min
May 6, 5:36 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPDavie, Iredell, Rowan39 min
May 6, 5:57 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth48 min
May 6, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPDavie, Rowan25 min
May 7, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDuplin49 min
May 7, 5:31 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Lenoir, Pitt44 min
May 7, 6:11 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Pamlico49 min
May 7, 6:33 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXOnslow42 min
May 7, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt63 min
May 7, 6:53 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Pamlico52 min
May 7, 7:36 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Pamlico41 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.