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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2000
10 tornado watches in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- May3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- December 17, 20003 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin, Harnett and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Macon, Transylvania | 7 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 37 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chowan and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 3:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 16, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 17, 12:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chatham and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Duplin County6
- Bladen County5
- Brunswick County5
- Chowan County5
- Columbus County5
- New Hanover County5
- Pender County5
- Perquimans County5
- Tyrrell County5
- Cumberland County5
- Harnett County5
- Johnston County5
- Sampson County5
- Wake County5
- Beaufort County4
- Camden County4
- Carteret County4
- Craven County4
- Currituck County4
- Dare County4
- Hyde County4
- Jones County4
- Lenoir County4
- Onslow County4
- Pamlico County4
- Pasquotank County4
- Washington County4
- Hoke County4
- Robeson County4
- Franklin County4
- Nash County4
- Wayne County4
- Wilson County4
- Bertie County4
- Lee County3
- Moore County3
- Halifax County3
- Warren County3
- Edgecombe County3
- Gates County3
46 more counties
- Greene County3
- Hertford County3
- Martin County3
- Pitt County3
- Richmond County2
- Scotland County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Macon County2
- Transylvania County2
- Chatham County2
- Durham County2
- Granville County2
- Montgomery County2
- Orange County2
- Person County2
- Vance County2
- Northampton County2
- Alamance County1
- Alexander County1
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caldwell County1
- Caswell County1
- Catawba County1
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Forsyth County1
- Guilford County1
- Iredell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Randolph County1
- Rockingham County1
- Rowan County1
- Stanly County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Jackson County1
- Madison County1
- Swain County1
- Anson 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.