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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2012

17 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
17
Busiest month
March5 tornado watches
Busiest day
September 18, 20123 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 21, 5:55 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Clay7 hr
Feb 24, 9:17 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more7 hr
Feb 24, 1:19 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 55 more7 hr
Feb 29, 6:37 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAvery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 11 more3 hr
Mar 2, 10:25 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Clay5 hr
Mar 2, 3:19 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAvery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay and 13 more8 hr
Mar 2, 10:54 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 16 more6 hr
Mar 24, 3:38 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Anson, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 30 more7 hr
Mar 24, 6:43 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCaswell, Rockingham4 hr
Jun 1, 1:28 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more8 hr
Jun 1, 1:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Granville and 8 more7 hr
Jun 1, 8:01 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more4 hr
Sep 17, 6:39 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson and 4 more8 hr
Sep 18, 9:45 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more8 hr
Sep 18, 10:54 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck, Gates and 4 more9 hr
Sep 18, 1:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more5 hr
Dec 26, 10:08 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 23 more6 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. September 18, 20123tornado watches
  2. February 24, 20122tornado watches
  3. March 2, 20122tornado watches
  4. March 24, 20122tornado watches
  5. June 1, 20122tornado watches
  6. January 21, 20121tornado watches
  7. February 29, 20121tornado watches
  8. March 3, 20121tornado watches
  9. June 2, 20121tornado watches
  10. September 17, 20121tornado watches
  11. December 26, 20121tornado watches

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.