Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, May 2000
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 27, 20002 tornado watches
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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cumberland County3
- Duplin County3
- Franklin County3
- Harnett County3
- Johnston County3
- Nash County3
- Sampson County3
- Wake County3
- Wayne County3
- Wilson County3
- Halifax County2
- Warren County2
- Beaufort County2
- Bertie County2
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Carteret County2
- Chowan County2
- Columbus County2
- Craven County2
- Dare County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Greene County2
- Hoke County2
- Hyde County2
- Jones County2
- Lenoir County2
- Martin County2
- New Hanover County2
- Onslow County2
- Pamlico County2
- Pender County2
- Perquimans County2
- Pitt County2
- Robeson County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Washington County2
- Alamance County1
- Alexander County1
- Alleghany County1
34 more counties
- Ashe County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caldwell County1
- Caswell County1
- Catawba County1
- Chatham County1
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Durham County1
- Forsyth County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Iredell County1
- Lee County1
- Lincoln County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Randolph County1
- Rockingham County1
- Rowan County1
- Stanly County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Vance County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
- Camden County1
- Currituck County1
- Gates County1
- Hertford County1
- Northampton 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.