Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2015
5 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 19, 20152 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 1:04 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 21, 12:37 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cabarrus County2
- Gaston County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Union County2
- Johnston County2
- Bertie County2
- Camden County2
- Chowan County2
- Currituck County2
- Gates County2
- Hertford County2
- Northampton County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Perquimans County2
- Anson County1
- Bladen County1
- Brunswick County1
- Chatham County1
- Columbus County1
- Cumberland County1
- Davidson County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Lee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- New Hanover County1
- Pender County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Robeson County1
- Sampson County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Wayne County1
- Alexander County1
- Avery County1
- Buncombe County1
- Burke County1
- Caldwell County1
27 more counties
- Catawba County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davie County1
- Haywood County1
- Henderson County1
- Iredell County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Mitchell County1
- Polk County1
- Rowan County1
- Rutherford County1
- Transylvania County1
- Yancey County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Franklin County1
- Granville County1
- Halifax County1
- Martin County1
- Nash County1
- Vance County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Wilson County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.