Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, February 2016
3 tornado watches in February 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 February 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- February 24, 20163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Columbus County2
- Craven County2
- Cumberland County2
- Duplin County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Halifax County2
- Harnett County2
- Johnston County2
- Jones County2
- Lenoir County2
- Martin County2
- Nash County2
- New Hanover County2
- Onslow County2
- Pender County2
- Pitt County2
- Robeson County2
- Sampson County2
- Wake County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Wilson County2
- Beaufort County2
- Bertie County2
- Camden County2
- Carteret County2
- Chowan County2
- Currituck County2
- Dare County2
- Gates County2
- Hertford County2
- Hyde County2
- Northampton County2
- Pamlico County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Perquimans County2
34 more counties
- Tyrrell 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
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.