Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2024

By month

27 of 181 tornado warnings covering North Carolina in 2024 had a tornado report inside them; 37 of 55 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 13 minutes after it went out.

North Carolina, 2024

Each office's whole area, 2024

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

• Brunswick County15
• Pitt County14
• Nash County14
• Wilson County12
• Rockingham County11
• Edgecombe County11
• Franklin County11
• Columbus County10
• Beaufort County10
• Pender County9
• Onslow County9
• Jones County9
• Greene County9
• Caswell County9
• Johnston County8
• Craven County8
• Lenoir County8
• Bladen County7
• Granville County7
• Warren County7
• Halifax County7
• Martin County7
• Vance County6
• Gates County6
• Harnett County5
• Sampson County5
• New Hanover County5
• Washington County5
• Wayne County5
• Wake County5
• Mecklenburg County4
• Cumberland County4
• Duplin County4
• Chatham County4
• Stokes County3
• Cabarrus County3
• Moore County3
• Montgomery County3
• Durham County3
• Carteret County3

1. August 8, 202461tornado warnings
2. September 27, 202431tornado warnings
3. January 9, 202415tornado warnings
4. August 7, 20249tornado warnings
5. May 27, 20248tornado warnings
6. August 6, 20247tornado warnings
7. December 29, 20247tornado warnings
8. April 11, 20245tornado warnings
9. September 16, 20245tornado warnings
10. September 26, 20245tornado warnings
11. May 14, 20244tornado warnings
12. September 30, 20244tornado warnings

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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.