Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2024
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, May 2024
20 tornado warnings in May 2024. 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 20
- Busiest day
- May 27, 20248 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 47 min |
| May 8, 11:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 51 min |
| May 9, 12:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Rutherford | 25 min |
| May 14, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 40 min |
| May 14, 7:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 34 min |
| May 14, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 37 min |
| May 14, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 35 min |
| May 14, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 16 min |
| May 18, 9:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 24 min |
| May 23, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 47 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 21 min |
| May 26, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 42 min |
| May 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 32 min |
| May 27, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 34 min |
| May 27, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin, Pitt | 31 min |
| May 27, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin, Washington | 31 min |
| May 27, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Tyrrell, Washington | 34 min |
| May 27, 6:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Washington | 37 min |
| May 27, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 29 min |
| May 27, 6:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington | 37 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County4
- Cherokee County3
- Martin County3
- Columbus County2
- Bladen County2
- Halifax County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Beaufort County2
- Hyde County2
- Cleveland County1
- Gaston County1
- Lincoln County1
- Clay County1
- Buncombe County1
- McDowell County1
- Rutherford County1
- Cumberland County1
- Sampson County1
- Carteret County1
- Onslow County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Pitt County1
- Camden County1
- Currituck County1
- Pasquotank County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.