Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, May 2017
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bladen County3
- Carteret County3
- Craven County3
- Cumberland County3
- Duplin County3
- Harnett County3
- Hoke County3
- Johnston County3
- Jones County3
- Lenoir County3
- Onslow County3
- Pender County3
- Robeson County3
- Sampson County3
- Scotland County3
- Wayne County3
- Brunswick County2
- Columbus County2
- New Hanover County2
- Alamance County2
- Anson County2
- Chatham County2
- Durham County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Franklin County2
- Granville County2
- Greene County2
- Guilford County2
- Halifax County2
- Lee County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moore County2
- Nash County2
- Orange County2
- Pamlico County2
- Person County2
- Pitt County2
- Randolph County2
- Richmond County2
- Vance County2
60 more counties
- Wake County2
- Warren County2
- Wilson County2
- Beaufort County2
- Dare County2
- Hyde County2
- Martin County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Washington County2
- Cherokee County2
- Bertie County1
- Camden County1
- Chowan County1
- Currituck County1
- Gates County1
- Hertford County1
- Northampton County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Perquimans County1
- Alexander County1
- Avery County1
- Buncombe County1
- Burke County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Caldwell County1
- Catawba County1
- Clay County1
- Cleveland County1
- Davie County1
- Gaston County1
- Graham County1
- Haywood County1
- Henderson County1
- Iredell County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDowell County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Mitchell County1
- Polk County1
- Rowan County1
- Rutherford County1
- Swain County1
- Transylvania County1
- Union County1
- Yancey County1
- Alleghany County1
- Ashe County1
- Caswell County1
- Davidson County1
- Forsyth County1
- Rockingham County1
- Stanly County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Watauga County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
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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.