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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2005
15 tornado watches in 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- July5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- July 7, 20054 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 5:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 11:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 14, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 8:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston, Henderson and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Caswell and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson, Davie and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates, Granville and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Macon | 10 hr |
| Aug 30, 5:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 30, 8:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 30, 1:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 30 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 21, 12:14 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carteret, Pamlico | 6 hr |
| Nov 29, 6:04 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Durham, Edgecombe and 12 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cabarrus County7
- Davie County7
- Iredell County7
- Mecklenburg County7
- Rowan County7
- Gaston County6
- Catawba County5
- Cleveland County5
- Lincoln County5
- Polk County5
- Rutherford County5
- Transylvania County5
- Durham County5
- Granville County5
- Union County5
- Vance County5
- Bertie County5
- Edgecombe County5
- Gates County5
- Halifax County5
- Hertford County5
- Northampton County5
- Alexander County4
- Burke County4
- Caldwell County4
- Henderson County4
- McDowell County4
- Caswell County4
- Davidson County4
- Forsyth County4
- Guilford County4
- Rockingham County4
- Stokes County4
- Surry County4
- Wake County4
- Yadkin County4
- Camden County4
- Chowan County4
- Franklin County4
- Martin County4
51 more counties
- Nash County4
- Pasquotank County4
- Perquimans County4
- Warren County4
- Buncombe County3
- Haywood County3
- Jackson County3
- Madison County3
- Yancey County3
- Alamance County3
- Chatham County3
- Montgomery County3
- Orange County3
- Person County3
- Randolph County3
- Stanly County3
- Washington County3
- Currituck County3
- Wilson County2
- Carteret County2
- Hyde County2
- Pamlico County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Macon County2
- Mitchell County2
- Anson County1
- Cumberland County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Lee County1
- Moore County1
- Richmond County1
- Robeson County1
- Scotland County1
- Beaufort County1
- Craven County1
- Greene County1
- Jones County1
- Lenoir County1
- Onslow County1
- Pitt County1
- Dare County1
- Graham County1
- Swain County1
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Avery County1
- Watauga County1
- Wilkes 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.