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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2017
14 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- May6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 12:48 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Granville and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:07 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Camden, Chatham, Chowan, Cumberland and 31 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 8:49 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 3:09 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chatham and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 6:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 10:04 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 24 more | 11 hr |
| May 24, 1:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 7 hr |
| May 24, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Beaufort, Bladen and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 1, 1:49 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Anson, Bladen, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 27 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 23, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Avery, Burke and 28 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 23, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 18 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cumberland County6
- Harnett County6
- Hoke County6
- Johnston County6
- Sampson County6
- Wayne County6
- Granville County5
- Halifax County5
- Person County5
- Vance County5
- Warren County5
- Bladen County5
- Robeson County5
- Chatham County5
- Lee County5
- Moore County5
- Wake County5
- Scotland County5
- Northampton County4
- Cabarrus County4
- Mecklenburg County4
- Rowan County4
- Union County4
- Pender County4
- Alamance County4
- Duplin County4
- Durham County4
- Edgecombe County4
- Franklin County4
- Lenoir County4
- Nash County4
- Orange County4
- Wilson County4
- Anson County4
- Montgomery County4
- Randolph County4
- Richmond County4
- Cherokee County3
- Bertie County3
- Camden County3
60 more counties
- Chowan County3
- Currituck County3
- Gates County3
- Hertford County3
- Pasquotank County3
- Perquimans County3
- Brunswick County3
- Columbus County3
- New Hanover County3
- Greene County3
- Martin County3
- Pitt County3
- Washington County3
- Carteret County3
- Craven County3
- Jones County3
- Onslow County3
- Guilford County3
- Alexander County3
- Burke County3
- Caldwell County3
- Catawba County3
- Cleveland County3
- Davie County3
- Gaston County3
- Iredell County3
- Lincoln County3
- Rutherford County3
- Davidson County3
- Stanly County3
- Clay County2
- Pamlico County2
- Beaufort County2
- Dare County2
- Hyde County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Avery County2
- McDowell County2
- Polk County2
- Alleghany County2
- Ashe County2
- Caswell County2
- Forsyth County2
- Rockingham County2
- Stokes County2
- Surry County2
- Watauga County2
- Wilkes County2
- Yadkin County2
- Buncombe County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Henderson County1
- Jackson County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Mitchell County1
- Swain County1
- Transylvania County1
- Yancey 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.