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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2020
15 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- February4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 6, 20204 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 1:42 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay | 7 hr |
| Jan 11, 5:38 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 10:12 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 6, 11:01 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Cumberland, Currituck and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:23 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 15 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 12, 8:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 5:01 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 53 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Sampson | 8 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:49 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 24 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 29 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:38 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 18 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greene County7
- Beaufort County6
- Dare County6
- Hyde County6
- Martin County6
- Pitt County6
- Sampson County6
- Tyrrell County6
- Washington County6
- Carteret County6
- Craven County6
- Duplin County6
- Jones County6
- Lenoir County6
- Onslow County6
- Pamlico County6
- Wayne County5
- Bladen County5
- Brunswick County5
- Columbus County5
- New Hanover County5
- Pender County5
- Jackson County4
- Macon County4
- Polk County4
- Transylvania County4
- Bertie County4
- Cumberland County4
- Edgecombe County4
- Gates County4
- Halifax County4
- Hertford County4
- Hoke County4
- Nash County4
- Northampton County4
- Scotland County4
- Wilson County4
- Robeson County4
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
56 more counties
- Cabarrus County3
- Catawba County3
- Cleveland County3
- Davie County3
- Gaston County3
- Graham County3
- Haywood County3
- Henderson County3
- Iredell County3
- Lincoln County3
- Mecklenburg County3
- Rowan County3
- Rutherford County3
- Swain County3
- Union County3
- Camden County3
- Chowan County3
- Currituck County3
- Franklin County3
- Harnett County3
- Johnston County3
- Pasquotank County3
- Perquimans County3
- Wake County3
- Warren County3
- Alexander County2
- Burke County2
- Caldwell County2
- McDowell County2
- Alamance County2
- Anson County2
- Chatham County2
- Davidson County2
- Forsyth County2
- Guilford County2
- Lee County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moore County2
- Orange County2
- Person County2
- Randolph County2
- Richmond County2
- Stanly County2
- Caswell County2
- Rockingham County2
- Stokes County2
- Durham County2
- Granville County2
- Vance County2
- Avery County1
- Buncombe County1
- Madison County1
- Mitchell County1
- Yancey County1
- Surry County1
- Yadkin 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.