Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, August 2004
6 tornado watches in August 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 August 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 12, 20042 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brunswick County4
- Columbus County4
- Craven County4
- Duplin County4
- Jones County4
- Lenoir County4
- Onslow County4
- Pender County4
- Greene County4
- Bladen County3
- Cumberland County3
- Hoke County3
- Richmond County3
- Robeson County3
- Sampson County3
- Scotland County3
- Beaufort County3
- Currituck County3
- Harnett County3
- Hyde County3
- Johnston County3
- Lee County3
- Martin County3
- Pitt County3
- Wake County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- Wilson County3
- New Hanover County3
- Bertie County2
- Camden County2
- Chowan County2
- Franklin County2
- Gates County2
- Hertford County2
- Nash County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Perquimans County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Carteret County2
28 more counties
- Dare County2
- Pamlico County2
- Anson County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Union County1
- Alamance County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caswell County1
- Chatham County1
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Durham County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Forsyth County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Halifax County1
- Montgomery County1
- Northampton County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Randolph County1
- Rockingham County1
- Rowan County1
- Stokes County1
- Vance County1
- Warren County1
- Moore 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.