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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2019
12 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- April6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- September 5, 20193 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 14, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus and 46 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:14 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:41 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 10:31 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Avery and 40 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 35 more | 11 hr |
| Sep 5, 4:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 12 hr |
| Sep 5, 7:28 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Cumberland, Dare, Duplin and 16 more | 11 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 17 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 31, 12:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 4 hr |
| Oct 31, 3:16 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caswell, Northampton, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 31, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 41 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnston County5
- Nash County5
- Wilson County5
- Alamance County4
- Alexander County4
- Alleghany County4
- Anson County4
- Burke County4
- Cabarrus County4
- Caldwell County4
- Caswell County4
- Catawba County4
- Chatham County4
- Cleveland County4
- Cumberland County4
- Davidson County4
- Davie County4
- Durham County4
- Forsyth County4
- Franklin County4
- Gaston County4
- Granville County4
- Guilford County4
- Harnett County4
- Hoke County4
- Iredell County4
- Lee County4
- Lincoln County4
- McDowell County4
- Mecklenburg County4
- Montgomery County4
- Moore County4
- Orange County4
- Person County4
- Polk County4
- Randolph County4
- Richmond County4
- Rockingham County4
- Rowan County4
- Rutherford County4
49 more counties
- Sampson County4
- Scotland County4
- Stanly County4
- Stokes County4
- Surry County4
- Vance County4
- Wake County4
- Wayne County4
- Wilkes County4
- Yadkin County4
- Edgecombe County4
- Bladen County3
- Brunswick County3
- Columbus County3
- New Hanover County3
- Pender County3
- Union County3
- Bertie County3
- Camden County3
- Chowan County3
- Currituck County3
- Gates County3
- Halifax County3
- Hertford County3
- Northampton County3
- Pasquotank County3
- Perquimans County3
- Warren County3
- Beaufort County3
- Carteret County3
- Craven County3
- Dare County3
- Duplin County3
- Greene County3
- Hyde County3
- Jones County3
- Lenoir County3
- Martin County3
- Onslow County3
- Pamlico County3
- Pitt County3
- Tyrrell County3
- Washington County3
- Robeson County2
- Ashe County2
- Watauga County2
- Henderson County1
- Transylvania County1
- Avery County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.