Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, May 2003
10 tornado watches in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20032 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 5, 4:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Graham | 6 hr |
| May 5, 9:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Swain | 6 hr |
| May 6, 1:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Durham, Edgecombe and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Hyde and 7 more | 4 hr |
| May 10, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham | 5 hr |
| May 31, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden and 57 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 2:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Durham County4
- Edgecombe County4
- Franklin County4
- Granville County4
- Halifax County4
- Nash County4
- Northampton County4
- Person County4
- Vance County4
- Warren County4
- Wilson County4
- Cherokee County3
- Graham County3
- Duplin County3
- Wayne County3
- Bertie County3
- Camden County3
- Chowan County3
- Currituck County3
- Gates County3
- Hertford County3
- Martin County3
- Orange County3
- Pasquotank County3
- Perquimans County3
- Tyrrell County3
- Washington County3
- Beaufort County3
- Pitt County3
- Clay County2
- Anson County2
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Columbus County2
- Cumberland County2
- Hoke County2
- Richmond County2
- Robeson County2
- Sampson County2
- Scotland County2
35 more counties
- Carteret County2
- Craven County2
- Greene County2
- Hyde County2
- Jones County2
- Lenoir County2
- Pamlico County2
- Alamance County2
- Caswell County2
- Guilford County2
- Rockingham County2
- Stokes County2
- Dare County2
- Wake County2
- Swain County1
- Onslow County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Chatham County1
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Forsyth County1
- Harnett County1
- Johnston County1
- Lee County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Randolph County1
- Rowan County1
- Stanly County1
- Surry County1
- Union County1
- Yadkin County1
- New Hanover County1
- Pender County1
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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.