Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2021

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, March 2021

22 tornado warnings in March 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 March 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
22
Busiest day
March 18, 202114 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
Mar 18, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPMecklenburg, Union37 min
Mar 18, 4:41 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford31 min
Mar 18, 4:54 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHGuilford, Randolph66 min
Mar 18, 5:13 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union31 min
Mar 18, 5:18 PM EDTTornado WarningAKQNorthampton27 min
Mar 18, 5:34 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHAlamance, Guilford26 min
Mar 18, 5:37 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCaswell, Rockingham23 min
Mar 18, 5:58 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHAlamance, Durham, Orange, Person62 min
Mar 18, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningRNKCaswell22 min
Mar 18, 6:39 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHDurham, Orange34 min
Mar 18, 6:41 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHGranville34 min
Mar 18, 6:57 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHGranville48 min
Mar 18, 7:11 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHHalifax, Vance, Warren54 min
Mar 18, 7:25 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHFranklin, Vance, Warren47 min
Mar 25, 2:40 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPHenderson, Polk, Transylvania50 min
Mar 25, 4:01 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCleveland, Rutherford44 min
Mar 25, 6:13 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus, Union17 min
Mar 25, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHStanly45 min
Mar 27, 4:19 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHLee, Montgomery, Moore41 min
Mar 27, 5:13 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHJohnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson47 min
Mar 27, 6:36 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHJohnston, Wayne54 min
Mar 28, 5:59 PM EDTTornado WarningMHXTyrrell19 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.