Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2019
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, May 2019
17 tornado warnings in May 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 13, 20195 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 11, 1:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 28 min |
| May 11, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 29 min |
| May 11, 2:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 41 min |
| May 11, 4:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 24 min |
| May 12, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry | 35 min |
| May 12, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry | 30 min |
| May 12, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Surry | 30 min |
| May 12, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Stokes | 26 min |
| May 13, 10:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Nash, Wake | 32 min |
| May 13, 10:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 21 min |
| May 13, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 35 min |
| May 13, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 45 min |
| May 13, 2:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne, Wilson | 9 min |
| May 31, 4:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 24 min |
| May 31, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 24 min |
| May 31, 5:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 23 min |
| May 31, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Greene, Lenoir, Pitt | 45 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Surry County3
- Wilson County3
- Gaston County2
- Stokes County2
- Nash County2
- Johnston County2
- Wayne County2
- Greene County2
- Lenoir County2
- Pitt County2
- Cleveland County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Anson County1
- Montgomery County1
- Richmond County1
- Stanly County1
- Franklin County1
- Wake County1
- Catawba County1
- Iredell County1
- Alamance County1
- Guilford County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Rowan County1
- Craven 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.