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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2004
30 tornado watches in 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 30
- Busiest month
- September15 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- September 17, 20045 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 6, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 10:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck and 20 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 5:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 1:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland and 28 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden, Caswell and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 25 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 14, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan and 21 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 30, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Currituck | 7 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Henderson, Mecklenburg and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 7, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Columbus and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Anson, Avery, Bladen, Brunswick, Burke and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 8, 6:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Duplin, Durham and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Robeson | 9 hr |
| Sep 16, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Polk and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 17, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 17, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 17, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 17, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 27, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin, Harnett and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 27, 9:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Halifax, Hertford and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 24, 10:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Onslow, Pender, Robeson | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 3:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 33 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sampson County16
- Bladen County13
- Brunswick County13
- Columbus County13
- Greene County13
- Lenoir County13
- Cumberland County13
- Harnett County13
- Duplin County12
- Wayne County12
- Johnston County12
- Hoke County12
- Richmond County12
- Robeson County12
- Scotland County12
- Wake County11
- Onslow County10
- Pender County10
- Currituck County10
- Halifax County10
- Wilson County10
- Lee County10
- Moore County10
- Craven County9
- Jones County9
- Pitt County9
- Camden County9
- Edgecombe County9
- Northampton County9
- Pasquotank County9
- Beaufort County8
- New Hanover County8
- Chowan County8
- Gates County8
- Hertford County8
- Martin County8
- Perquimans County8
- Franklin County8
- Nash County8
- Union County8
60 more counties
- Montgomery County8
- Hyde County7
- Bertie County7
- Washington County7
- Mecklenburg County7
- Anson County7
- Pamlico County6
- Tyrrell County6
- Vance County6
- Warren County6
- Cabarrus County6
- Chatham County6
- Carteret County5
- Dare County5
- Cleveland County5
- Gaston County5
- Durham County5
- Granville County5
- Orange County5
- Randolph County5
- Stanly County5
- Forsyth County4
- Lincoln County4
- Rowan County4
- Rutherford County4
- Alamance County4
- Caswell County4
- Davidson County4
- Guilford County4
- Person County4
- Rockingham County4
- Polk County4
- Avery County3
- Davie County3
- Iredell County3
- Mitchell County3
- Henderson County3
- Stokes County3
- Alexander County2
- Buncombe County2
- Burke County2
- Caldwell County2
- Catawba County2
- McDowell County2
- Madison County2
- Surry County2
- Yadkin County2
- Yancey County2
- Transylvania County2
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Watauga County1
- Wilkes County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Swain County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.