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Wind Advisories in North Carolina, 2021
39 wind advisories 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 wind advisories reaches back to 2005.
Wind Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Wind Advisories
- 39
- Busiest month
- March9 wind advisories
- Busiest day
- March 31, 20213 wind advisories
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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 19, 1:27 PM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 24 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:55 PM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 22 hr |
| Jan 26, 2:41 PM EST | Wind Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde | 55 hr |
| Jan 27, 9:03 AM EST | Wind Advisory | AKQ | Currituck | 33 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:13 PM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, McDowell and 4 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 1, 4:23 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more | 57 hr |
| Feb 1, 2:27 PM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin | 47 hr |
| Feb 2, 9:14 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Surry | 16 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:22 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Surry | 10 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:51 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 15, 4:07 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more | 20 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:49 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell | 57 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:11 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 45 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:41 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 24 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:45 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 33 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:58 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 22 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:00 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Mitchell, Yancey | 22 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:25 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more | 43 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:13 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes | 33 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:38 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 12 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:40 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 13 more | 33 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:47 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 33 hr |
| May 7, 4:01 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 14 hr |
| Aug 31, 10:16 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Madison, Mitchell and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:59 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Ashe, Watauga | 15 hr |
| Oct 9, 10:06 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde | 19 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:40 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, McDowell and 4 more | 20 hr |
| Oct 25, 10:20 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes | 25 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:05 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 17 hr |
| Oct 28, 4:02 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | AKQ | Currituck | 39 hr |
| Nov 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Dare, Hyde, Onslow, Pamlico and 1 more | 62 hr |
| Nov 6, 4:22 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | AKQ | Currituck | 43 hr |
| Nov 14, 4:20 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 28 hr |
| Nov 14, 2:50 PM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 19 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:02 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga | 25 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:35 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Madison and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:23 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RAH | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 20 more | 13 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:36 AM EST | Wind Advisory | RNK | Ashe, Watauga | 21 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:44 AM EST | Wind Advisory | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Graham and 11 more | 21 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mitchell County13
- Yancey County13
- Ashe County12
- Watauga County12
- Avery County12
- Alleghany County10
- Graham County8
- Haywood County8
- Madison County8
- Swain County8
- Burke County7
- Caldwell County7
- McDowell County7
- Jackson County7
- Surry County6
- Buncombe County6
- Wilkes County5
- Henderson County5
- Polk County5
- Rutherford County5
- Macon County5
- Transylvania County5
- Carteret County4
- Dare County4
- Hyde County4
- Currituck County4
- Cherokee County3
- Clay County3
- Tyrrell County2
- Yadkin County1
- Camden County1
- Pasquotank County1
- Alexander County1
- Catawba County1
- Craven County1
- Onslow County1
- Pamlico County1
- Anson County1
- Chatham County1
- Cumberland County1
29 more counties
- Durham County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Franklin County1
- Granville County1
- Halifax County1
- Harnett County1
- Hoke County1
- Johnston County1
- Lee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Nash County1
- Orange County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Sampson County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Vance County1
- Wake County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilson County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Cleveland County1
- Gaston County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mecklenburg County1
- Union 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. Rebuilt daily.