Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, February 2011
1 tornado watches in February 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 February 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- February 28, 20111 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 1:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 33 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alexander County1
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Avery County1
- Buncombe County1
- Burke County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caldwell County1
- Caswell County1
- Catawba County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davie County1
- Gaston County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Henderson County1
- Iredell County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Mitchell County1
- Polk County1
- Rockingham County1
- Rowan County1
- Rutherford County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Swain County1
- Transylvania County1
- Union County1
- Watauga County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
- Yancey 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.