Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2021

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, August 2021

36 tornado warnings in August 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
36
Busiest day
August 17, 202123 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 1, 10:43 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Currituck, Pasquotank47 min
Aug 1, 11:10 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQPasquotank, Perquimans35 min
Aug 1, 11:14 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Currituck61 min
Aug 1, 11:24 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQBertie, Chowan, Hertford36 min
Aug 1, 11:27 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQCamden, Pasquotank48 min
Aug 1, 11:48 AM EDTTornado WarningAKQChowan, Perquimans27 min
Aug 1, 4:00 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHCumberland30 min
Aug 7, 1:27 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQNorthampton48 min
Aug 17, 11:36 AM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGSPAlexander, Iredell39 min
Aug 17, 11:48 AM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedRNKWilkes42 min
Aug 17, 12:06 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPIredell39 min
Aug 17, 12:33 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAlexander12 min
Aug 17, 12:35 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedRNKWilkes, Yadkin40 min
Aug 17, 12:42 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGSPIredell18 min
Aug 17, 1:19 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKWilkes41 min
Aug 17, 1:48 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKAlleghany, Wilkes42 min
Aug 17, 2:18 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCaswell32 min
Aug 17, 2:31 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPBurke, Caldwell44 min
Aug 17, 2:31 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPMacon19 min
Aug 17, 2:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKRockingham, Stokes32 min
Aug 17, 3:02 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCaldwell43 min
Aug 17, 3:06 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAlexander, Caldwell39 min
Aug 17, 3:48 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAlexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba42 min
Aug 17, 4:07 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAvery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell53 min
Aug 17, 4:17 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAvery, Burke, Caldwell43 min
Aug 17, 4:20 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPHenderson, Polk, Rutherford12 min
Aug 17, 4:59 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAvery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey46 min
Aug 17, 5:26 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAvery, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford, Yancey49 min
Aug 17, 5:28 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAvery, Burke, Caldwell47 min
Aug 17, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPPolk, Rutherford48 min
Aug 17, 7:59 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland46 min
Aug 17, 10:44 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAlexander, Iredell31 min
Aug 17, 10:47 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKSurry, Wilkes, Yadkin28 min
Aug 18, 12:08 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKSurry37 min
Aug 18, 12:24 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKSurry21 min
Aug 18, 1:01 AM EDTTornado WarningRNKSurry29 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. Rebuilt daily.