Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, September 2012
4 tornado watches in September 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 September 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- September 18, 20123 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 6:39 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 18, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 18, 10:54 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck, Gates and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 18, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Henderson County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Polk County1
- Swain County1
- Transylvania 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
- Johnston County1
- Lee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Nash County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Sampson County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Vance County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
26 more counties
- Wilson County1
- Bertie County1
- Camden County1
- Caswell County1
- Chowan County1
- Currituck County1
- Gates County1
- Hertford County1
- Northampton County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Perquimans County1
- Beaufort County1
- Carteret County1
- Craven County1
- Dare County1
- Duplin County1
- Greene County1
- Hyde County1
- Jones County1
- Lenoir County1
- Martin County1
- Onslow County1
- Pamlico County1
- Pitt County1
- Tyrrell County1
- Washington 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.