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Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2012

60 tornado warnings in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
60
Busiest month
March12 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 3, 20129 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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
Jan 11, 5:35 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPBurke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford40 min
Jan 11, 6:05 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPAlexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba40 min
Feb 24, 4:07 PM ESTTornado WarningRNKCaswell13 min
Mar 2, 1:38 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGraham, Swain52 min
Mar 2, 1:49 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXCherokee41 min
Mar 2, 2:29 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGraham, Swain52 min
Mar 2, 7:36 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXCherokee24 min
Mar 2, 7:56 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXCherokee, Clay49 min
Mar 2, 8:13 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPMacon62 min
Mar 2, 8:35 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXCherokee40 min
Mar 2, 8:54 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPJackson, Macon, Transylvania39 min
Mar 2, 8:58 PM ESTTornado WarningMRXCherokee, Clay47 min
Mar 2, 9:24 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPTransylvania24 min
Mar 2, 9:28 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPMacon, Swain27 min
Mar 3, 2:40 AM ESTTornado WarningRAHStanly50 min
May 1, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDurham, Granville, Orange, Wake31 min
May 9, 6:19 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones, Lenoir26 min
May 14, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDuplin25 min
May 14, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHSampson21 min
May 14, 11:50 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBrunswick, Columbus26 min
May 30, 11:13 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones32 min
Jun 1, 5:03 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQPasquotank, Perquimans27 min
Jun 1, 5:17 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Pasquotank28 min
Jul 1, 4:24 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHSampson12 min
Jul 10, 5:31 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXHyde14 min
Jul 11, 6:01 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHScotland18 min
Jul 30, 10:43 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXDare32 min
Aug 11, 1:13 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHalifax, Nash25 min
Aug 11, 5:13 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHEdgecombe, Wilson62 min
Aug 14, 10:59 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHalifax, Warren24 min
Aug 15, 1:29 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven, Pamlico46 min
Aug 15, 2:26 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHMontgomery, Moore, Richmond34 min
Aug 19, 9:09 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHHalifax23 min
Aug 19, 2:11 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDare34 min
Aug 19, 2:20 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXDare25 min
Aug 24, 8:42 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCarteret18 min
Aug 24, 9:52 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCarteret, Hyde53 min
Sep 2, 8:42 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDurham, Orange, Person33 min
Sep 18, 2:37 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHGranville21 min
Sep 18, 3:24 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHCumberland, Johnston, Sampson23 min
Sep 18, 3:38 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Nash, Wake14 min
Sep 18, 4:24 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXJones18 min
Sep 18, 4:33 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven27 min
Sep 18, 4:58 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven32 min
Sep 18, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven19 min
Sep 29, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHMontgomery, Moore, Richmond27 min
Sep 29, 5:58 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland62 min
Sep 29, 6:56 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHoke, Scotland18 min
Oct 1, 5:37 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBladen, Columbus53 min
Oct 1, 6:10 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBladen, Columbus, Robeson50 min
Oct 1, 6:26 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBladen, Pender44 min
Oct 2, 9:17 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland43 min
Oct 2, 10:59 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPCatawba, Iredell, Lincoln31 min
Dec 26, 9:39 AM ESTTornado WarningILMBrunswick, New Hanover, Pender28 min
Dec 26, 11:11 AM ESTTornado WarningMHXJones, Onslow49 min
Dec 26, 12:20 PM ESTTornado WarningMHXCarteret, Jones, Onslow40 min
Dec 26, 12:25 PM ESTTornado WarningILMBladen, Robeson35 min
Dec 26, 12:31 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHCumberland, Sampson20 min
Dec 26, 1:31 PM ESTTornado WarningRAHJohnston, Wayne26 min
Dec 26, 2:52 PM ESTTornado WarningMHXCarteret, Craven23 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

16 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 3, 20129tornado warnings
  2. September 18, 20127tornado warnings
  3. December 26, 20127tornado warnings
  4. March 2, 20123tornado warnings
  5. August 15, 20123tornado warnings
  6. August 19, 20123tornado warnings
  7. September 29, 20123tornado warnings
  8. October 1, 20123tornado warnings
  9. January 11, 20122tornado warnings
  10. May 14, 20122tornado warnings
  11. June 1, 20122tornado warnings
  12. August 11, 20122tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.