Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2020

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, August 2020

31 tornado warnings in August 2020. 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
31
Busiest day
August 4, 202030 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
Aug 3, 7:49 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBrunswick26 min
Aug 3, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBrunswick, Columbus17 min
Aug 3, 8:10 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBrunswick, Columbus, New Hanover35 min
Aug 3, 8:25 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBrunswick, New Hanover35 min
Aug 3, 8:50 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender25 min
Aug 3, 9:31 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXHyde, Tyrrell, Washington14 min
Aug 3, 9:56 PM EDTTornado WarningILMBrunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender34 min
Aug 3, 11:14 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQPasquotank, Perquimans31 min
Aug 3, 11:21 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXCraven, Pamlico24 min
Aug 3, 11:40 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Pasquotank35 min
Aug 3, 11:51 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Currituck24 min
Aug 3, 11:53 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQPasquotank, Perquimans37 min
Aug 4, 12:08 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort22 min
Aug 4, 12:16 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Currituck29 min
Aug 4, 12:21 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans24 min
Aug 4, 12:47 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Martin, Washington28 min
Aug 4, 12:56 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXBeaufort, Martin, Washington19 min
Aug 4, 1:09 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQBertie36 min
Aug 4, 1:29 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXHyde, Tyrrell, Washington31 min
Aug 4, 1:40 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQBertie, Hertford, Northampton35 min
Aug 4, 1:57 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQBertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford33 min
Aug 4, 1:57 AM EDTTornado WarningMHXTyrrell, Washington18 min
Aug 4, 2:00 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQBertie, Hertford, Northampton30 min
Aug 4, 2:11 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQChowan, Perquimans34 min
Aug 4, 2:18 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQGates, Hertford27 min
Aug 4, 2:21 AM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatAKQHertford, Northampton24 min
Aug 4, 2:34 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQChowan, Gates, Hertford, Perquimans26 min
Aug 4, 2:37 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans23 min
Aug 4, 2:57 AM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatAKQCamden, Gates, Pasquotank33 min
Aug 4, 3:05 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQChowan, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans25 min
Aug 4, 3:43 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQGates32 min

By county

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

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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.