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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2002
14 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- November6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- November 11, 20025 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Macon, Madison and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chatham, Chowan and 29 more | 3 hr |
| May 1, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mitchell | 4 hr |
| May 2, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 7:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Hyde, Jones and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 10, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Graham, Swain | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 10:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 11, 1:10 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Robeson, Scotland | 5 hr |
| Nov 11, 6:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 34 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 11, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Chowan and 22 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hertford County5
- Tyrrell County5
- Cherokee County4
- Graham County4
- Swain County4
- Bertie County4
- Camden County4
- Chowan County4
- Currituck County4
- Edgecombe County4
- Martin County4
- Nash County4
- Pasquotank County4
- Perquimans County4
- Pitt County4
- Washington County4
- Beaufort County4
- Craven County4
- Jones County4
- Onslow County4
- Pamlico County4
- Clay County3
- Haywood County3
- Macon County3
- Madison County3
- Cabarrus County3
- Davie County3
- Gaston County3
- Iredell County3
- Lincoln County3
- Mecklenburg County3
- Mitchell County3
- Rowan County3
- Dare County3
- Davidson County3
- Forsyth County3
- Franklin County3
- Gates County3
- Guilford County3
- Halifax County3
59 more counties
- Northampton County3
- Rockingham County3
- Stokes County3
- Vance County3
- Warren County3
- Wilson County3
- Duplin County3
- Greene County3
- Hyde County3
- Lenoir County3
- Pender County3
- Alexander County2
- Avery County2
- Buncombe County2
- Burke County2
- Caldwell County2
- Catawba County2
- Cleveland County2
- Henderson County2
- Jackson County2
- McDowell County2
- Polk County2
- Rutherford County2
- Transylvania County2
- Union County2
- Watauga County2
- Wilkes County2
- Yadkin County2
- Yancey County2
- Alamance County2
- Caswell County2
- Chatham County2
- Durham County2
- Granville County2
- Orange County2
- Person County2
- Randolph County2
- Wake County2
- Carteret County2
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Columbus County2
- Cumberland County2
- Harnett County2
- Hoke County2
- Johnston County2
- New Hanover County2
- Robeson County2
- Sampson County2
- Scotland County2
- Wayne County2
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Surry County1
- Lee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Richmond 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.