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Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2021
14 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- August4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 18, 20213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 12:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Hyde and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Union | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 20 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 1:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:01 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 8:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare and 11 more | 11 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:42 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Watauga and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 24 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes | 7 hr |
| Sep 1, 11:46 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gates, Hertford, Northampton | 9 hr |
| Dec 29, 10:16 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon and 2 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cabarrus County4
- Mecklenburg County4
- Union County4
- Beaufort County3
- Dare County3
- Hyde County3
- Tyrrell County3
- Washington County3
- Cleveland County3
- Gaston County3
- Lincoln County3
- Gates County3
- Hertford County3
- Northampton County3
- Henderson County3
- Rockingham County3
- Stokes County3
- Carteret County2
- Craven County2
- Duplin County2
- Jones County2
- Lenoir County2
- Onslow County2
- Pamlico County2
- Anson County2
- Cumberland County2
- Halifax County2
- Harnett County2
- Hoke County2
- Johnston County2
- Montgomery County2
- Nash County2
- Richmond County2
- Scotland County2
- Stanly County2
- Bertie County2
- Camden County2
- Chowan County2
- Currituck County2
- Pasquotank County2
57 more counties
- Perquimans County2
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Columbus County2
- New Hanover County2
- Pender County2
- Martin County2
- Pitt County2
- Alexander County2
- Avery County2
- Buncombe County2
- Burke County2
- Caldwell County2
- Catawba County2
- Davie County2
- Haywood County2
- Iredell County2
- Jackson County2
- McDowell County2
- Macon County2
- Mitchell County2
- Polk County2
- Rowan County2
- Rutherford County2
- Transylvania County2
- Yancey County2
- Alleghany County2
- Ashe County2
- Surry County2
- Watauga County2
- Wilkes County2
- Yadkin County2
- Caswell County2
- Alamance County1
- Chatham County1
- Davidson County1
- Durham County1
- Franklin County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Lee County1
- Moore County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Randolph County1
- Vance County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Greene County1
- Sampson County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilson County1
- Madison County1
- Clay County1
- Graham County1
- Swain 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. Rebuilt daily.