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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2009

21 tornado watches in 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
21
Busiest month
April6 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 6, 20092 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 6, 5:37 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCHenderson, Jackson, Macon, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania3 hr
Feb 11, 1:59 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Clay7 hr
Mar 28, 5:38 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 21 more6 hr
Apr 6, 7:07 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson6 hr
Apr 6, 8:03 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 32 more7 hr
Apr 10, 12:23 PM EDTTornado Watch PDSSPCCherokee, Clay8 hr
Apr 10, 3:39 PM EDTTornado Watch PDSSPCGraham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain8 hr
Apr 20, 12:42 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCCatawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Henderson, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and 2 more5 hr
Apr 20, 2:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chatham, Chowan and 18 more7 hr
May 5, 5:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAnson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus, Camden and 45 more5 hr
May 6, 2:16 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Alexander, Anson, Bertie, Buncombe, Burke and 52 more6 hr
May 6, 8:26 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Anson, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chatham and 30 more8 hr
May 8, 6:32 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 19 more7 hr
May 8, 10:01 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCaswell, Rockingham, Stokes4 hr
Jun 4, 2:52 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck and 13 more4 hr
Jul 17, 2:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more5 hr
Oct 9, 4:27 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Clay6 hr
Dec 2, 6:59 PM ESTTornado Watch PDSSPCBeaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 26 more8 hr
Dec 2, 9:01 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBertie, Camden, Chatham, Chowan, Currituck, Durham and 12 more6 hr
Dec 9, 3:07 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 22 more5 hr
Dec 9, 6:11 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBladen, Columbus, Robeson4 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

60 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 6, 20092tornado watches
  2. April 10, 20092tornado watches
  3. April 20, 20092tornado watches
  4. December 9, 20092tornado watches
  5. January 6, 20091tornado watches
  6. February 11, 20091tornado watches
  7. March 28, 20091tornado watches
  8. May 5, 20091tornado watches
  9. May 6, 20091tornado watches
  10. May 7, 20091tornado watches
  11. May 8, 20091tornado watches
  12. May 9, 20091tornado watches

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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.