Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, May 2004
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 31, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Avery County2
- Buncombe County2
- Madison County2
- Mitchell County2
- Yancey County2
- Alexander County1
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Burke County1
- Caldwell County1
- Catawba County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davie County1
- Forsyth County1
- Gaston County1
- Iredell County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Rowan County1
- Rutherford County1
- Surry County1
- Watauga County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Henderson County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Swain County1
- Transylvania County1
- Camden County1
- Currituck 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.