Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, July 2021
3 tornado watches in July 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 July 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- July 8, 20213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bladen County2
- Brunswick County2
- Columbus County2
- New Hanover County2
- Pender County2
- Beaufort County2
- Dare County2
- Hyde County2
- Martin County2
- Pitt County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Washington County2
- Carteret County1
- Craven County1
- Cumberland County1
- Duplin County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Greene County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Johnston County1
- Jones County1
- Lenoir County1
- Nash County1
- Onslow County1
- Pamlico County1
- Sampson County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilson County1
- Bertie County1
- Camden County1
- Chowan County1
- Currituck County1
- Gates County1
- Halifax County1
- Hertford County1
- Northampton County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Perquimans County1
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.