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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 1997
8 tornado watches in 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- April3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- July 24, 19972 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 5, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chowan and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Henderson, Mecklenburg, Polk and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbus | 4 hr |
| Jul 24, 2:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 8:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden and 49 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Edgecombe County4
- Greene County4
- Johnston County4
- Pitt County4
- Wayne County4
- Wilson County4
- Beaufort County3
- Bertie County3
- Chowan County3
- Columbus County3
- Craven County3
- Cumberland County3
- Gates County3
- Hoke County3
- Lenoir County3
- Martin County3
- Perquimans County3
- Sampson County3
- Washington County3
- Harnett County3
- Nash County3
- Wake County3
- Clay County2
- Cleveland County2
- Davie County2
- Forsyth County2
- Henderson County2
- Polk County2
- Rutherford County2
- Transylvania County2
- Yadkin County2
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Duplin County2
- Hyde County2
- Jones County2
- New Hanover County2
- Onslow County2
- Pamlico County2
- Pender County2
59 more counties
- Robeson County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Cabarrus County2
- Union County2
- Anson County2
- Lee County2
- Moore County2
- Richmond County2
- Camden County2
- Currituck County2
- Franklin County2
- Halifax County2
- Hertford County2
- Northampton County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Vance County2
- Warren County2
- Alexander County1
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Avery County1
- Buncombe County1
- Burke County1
- Caldwell County1
- Catawba County1
- Cherokee County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Iredell County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Mitchell County1
- Rockingham County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Swain County1
- Watauga County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yancey County1
- Carteret County1
- Gaston County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Scotland County1
- Alamance County1
- Chatham County1
- Dare County1
- Davidson County1
- Durham County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Montgomery County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Randolph County1
- Rowan County1
- Stanly County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.