Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, March 2021
3 tornado watches in March 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 March 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- March 18, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cabarrus County1
- Cleveland County1
- Gaston County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Union County1
- Alamance County1
- Anson County1
- Chatham County1
- Cumberland County1
- Davidson County1
- Durham County1
- Franklin County1
- Granville County1
- Guilford County1
- Halifax County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Johnston County1
- Lee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Nash County1
- Orange County1
- Person County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Vance County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Bertie County1
- Camden County1
- Chowan County1
- Currituck County1
- Gates County1
- Hertford County1
- Northampton County1
- Pasquotank County1
1 more counties
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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.