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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 4:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 4:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 66 min |
| Mar 18, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 27 min |
| Mar 18, 5:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 26 min |
| Mar 18, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 23 min |
| Mar 18, 5:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Alamance, Durham, Orange, Person | 62 min |
| Mar 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Caswell | 22 min |
| Mar 18, 6:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 34 min |
| Mar 18, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 34 min |
| Mar 18, 6:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 48 min |
| Mar 18, 7:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax, Vance, Warren | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Warren | 47 min |
| Mar 25, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Transylvania | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 44 min |
| Mar 25, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Union | 17 min |
| Mar 25, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Stanly | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee, Montgomery, Moore | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 6:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 5:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 19 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County3
- Guilford County3
- Mecklenburg County2
- Cabarrus County2
- Alamance County2
- Caswell County2
- Durham County2
- Orange County2
- Granville County2
- Vance County2
- Warren County2
- Johnston County2
- Davidson County1
- Forsyth County1
- Randolph County1
- Northampton County1
- Rockingham County1
- Person County1
- Halifax County1
- Franklin County1
- Henderson County1
- Polk County1
- Transylvania County1
- Cleveland County1
- Rutherford County1
- Stanly County1
- Lee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Nash County1
- Wake County1
- Wilson County1
- Wayne County1
- Tyrrell 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. Rebuilt daily.