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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2013

19 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
April7 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 12, 20134 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 30, 5:51 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Clay7 hr
Jan 30, 8:11 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCGraham, Jackson, Macon, Swain7 hr
Jan 30, 1:19 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more9 hr
Jan 30, 8:21 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham and 35 more6 hr
Jan 30, 11:59 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 17 more5 hr
Apr 11, 6:36 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAvery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 8 more7 hr
Apr 11, 8:24 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 10 more8 hr
Apr 12, 1:06 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson6 hr
Apr 12, 2:57 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more6 hr
Apr 12, 5:21 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCNorthampton3 hr
Apr 19, 2:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chatham and 31 more7 hr
Apr 19, 2:31 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCaswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin7 hr
Jun 7, 5:37 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 23 more7 hr
Jun 7, 1:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 19 more7 hr
Jun 10, 1:18 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Alexander, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Burke and 47 more9 hr
Jun 10, 2:02 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlleghany, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck and 10 more10 hr
Nov 26, 5:40 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson7 hr
Nov 26, 9:48 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more10 hr
Dec 14, 6:50 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBeaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 13 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

58 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 12, 20134tornado watches
  2. January 30, 20133tornado watches
  3. January 31, 20132tornado watches
  4. April 19, 20132tornado watches
  5. June 7, 20132tornado watches
  6. June 10, 20132tornado watches
  7. April 11, 20131tornado watches
  8. November 26, 20131tornado watches
  9. November 27, 20131tornado watches
  10. December 14, 20131tornado 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.