Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, February 2012
3 tornado watches in February 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 February 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- February 24, 20122 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 24, 9:17 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 55 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 29, 6:37 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 11 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Avery County2
- Buncombe County2
- Graham County2
- Haywood County2
- Henderson County2
- Jackson County2
- McDowell County2
- Macon County2
- Madison County2
- Mitchell County2
- Polk County2
- Rutherford County2
- Swain County2
- Transylvania County2
- Yancey County2
- Alexander County1
- Burke County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caldwell County1
- Catawba County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davie County1
- Gaston County1
- Iredell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Rowan County1
- Union County1
- Alamance County1
- Anson County1
- Beaufort County1
- Bertie County1
- Bladen County1
- Brunswick County1
- Camden County1
- Carteret County1
- Chatham County1
- Chowan County1
- Columbus County1
- Craven County1
51 more counties
- Cumberland County1
- Currituck County1
- Dare County1
- Davidson County1
- Duplin County1
- Durham County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Forsyth County1
- Franklin County1
- Gates County1
- Granville County1
- Greene County1
- Guilford County1
- Halifax County1
- Harnett County1
- Hertford County1
- Hoke County1
- Hyde County1
- Johnston County1
- Jones County1
- Lee County1
- Lenoir County1
- Martin County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Nash County1
- New Hanover County1
- Northampton County1
- Onslow County1
- Orange County1
- Pamlico County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Pender County1
- Perquimans County1
- Person County1
- Pitt County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Robeson County1
- Sampson County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Tyrrell County1
- Vance County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilson County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay 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.