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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2011
38 tornado watches in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 38
- Busiest month
- April21 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20117 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 28, 1:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 6, 6:24 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 23, 9:41 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:48 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck, Gates and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 9, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Burke, Cleveland, Gaston, Haywood, Henderson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 8:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 60 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:34 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:27 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Davidson, Durham and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 19 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:41 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Davidson, Forsyth and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:56 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 27 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:38 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck, Gates and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 8:48 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:41 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 4 hr |
| May 24, 4:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Forsyth, Guilford and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 8 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:11 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Brunswick, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Hyde and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 27, 12:32 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 14 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:29 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Caswell, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford and 6 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:17 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell and 43 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 1:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 48 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 16, 10:46 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 7 hr |
| Nov 16, 4:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Catawba and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 22, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Macon | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 19 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Caswell County12
- Rockingham County12
- Cherokee County11
- Clay County11
- Alamance County11
- Forsyth County11
- Guilford County11
- Henderson County10
- Stokes County10
- Wayne County10
- Davidson County10
- Orange County10
- Person County10
- Randolph County10
- Burke County9
- McDowell County9
- Surry County9
- Transylvania County9
- Wilkes County9
- Yadkin County9
- Yancey County9
- Beaufort County9
- Edgecombe County9
- Wilson County9
- Bladen County9
- Sampson County9
- Alleghany County8
- Avery County8
- Buncombe County8
- Caldwell County8
- Cleveland County8
- Gaston County8
- Haywood County8
- Jackson County8
- Macon County8
- Madison County8
- Mitchell County8
- Polk County8
- Rutherford County8
- Swain County8
60 more counties
- Bertie County8
- Chowan County8
- Greene County8
- Halifax County8
- Lenoir County8
- Martin County8
- Nash County8
- Northampton County8
- Pitt County8
- Washington County8
- Cumberland County8
- Durham County8
- Franklin County8
- Granville County8
- Robeson County8
- Vance County8
- Warren County8
- Brunswick County8
- Craven County8
- Jones County8
- New Hanover County8
- Onslow County8
- Pender County8
- Alexander County7
- Catawba County7
- Davie County7
- Iredell County7
- Lincoln County7
- Mecklenburg County7
- Rowan County7
- Union County7
- Camden County7
- Currituck County7
- Gates County7
- Hertford County7
- Pasquotank County7
- Perquimans County7
- Anson County7
- Chatham County7
- Harnett County7
- Hoke County7
- Johnston County7
- Lee County7
- Montgomery County7
- Moore County7
- Richmond County7
- Scotland County7
- Stanly County7
- Wake County7
- Carteret County7
- Columbus County7
- Dare County7
- Duplin County7
- Hyde County7
- Pamlico County7
- Tyrrell County7
- Ashe County6
- Cabarrus County6
- Graham County6
- Watauga County6
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.