Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, March 2012
5 tornado watches in March 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 March 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- March 2, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 10:25 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:54 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:38 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 24, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caswell, Rockingham | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Avery County2
- Buncombe County2
- Burke County2
- Caldwell 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
- Caswell County2
- Rockingham County2
- Alexander County1
- Catawba County1
- Cleveland County1
- Gaston County1
- Lincoln County1
- Alamance County1
- Anson County1
- Chatham County1
- Cumberland County1
- Davidson County1
- Durham County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Forsyth County1
- Franklin County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Halifax County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke 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.