Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2016
8 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- February3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 24, 20163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:16 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus and 52 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:46 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Currituck and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 24, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 36 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:14 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 18 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brunswick, Columbus | 8 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven, Dare, Hyde and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 8, 7:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven, Duplin, Jones and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 8, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Hyde and 5 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brunswick County5
- Columbus County5
- Craven County5
- Jones County5
- Onslow County5
- Carteret County5
- Pamlico County5
- Duplin County4
- Lenoir County4
- New Hanover County4
- Pender County4
- Dare County4
- Hyde County4
- Beaufort County3
- Tyrrell County3
- Bladen County2
- Cumberland County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Halifax County2
- Harnett County2
- Johnston County2
- Martin County2
- Nash County2
- Pitt County2
- Robeson County2
- Sampson County2
- Wake County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Wilson County2
- Bertie County2
- Camden County2
- Chowan County2
- Currituck County2
- Gates County2
- Hertford County2
- Northampton County2
- Pasquotank County2
36 more counties
- Perquimans County2
- Washington County2
- Alamance County1
- Alexander County1
- Anson County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caswell County1
- Catawba County1
- Chatham County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davidson County1
- Davie County1
- Durham County1
- Forsyth County1
- Gaston County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Hoke County1
- Iredell County1
- Lee County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Rockingham County1
- Rowan County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Union County1
- Vance County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20152017
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.