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Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2021

18 winter storm warnings 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 winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
18
Busiest month
January10 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
January 7, 20214 winter storm warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 4:10 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes and 1 more40 hr
Jan 7, 4:31 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 16 more40 hr
Jan 7, 4:40 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningMRXCherokee, Clay39 hr
Jan 7, 3:36 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph24 hr
Jan 27, 2:46 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAvery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more33 hr
Jan 27, 4:32 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Watauga31 hr
Jan 28, 3:22 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRAHGranville, Halifax, Person, Vance, Warren5 hr
Jan 30, 4:21 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAlexander, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, McDowell and 4 more31 hr
Jan 30, 5:19 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more33 hr
Jan 31, 3:03 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAvery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more46 hr
Feb 1, 4:18 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAshe, Watauga33 hr
Feb 6, 3:58 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 13 more32 hr
Feb 6, 4:16 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes32 hr
Feb 12, 3:47 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKCaswell, Rockingham, Stokes42 hr
Feb 12, 3:39 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningRAHForsyth, Granville, Guilford, Person, Vance, Warren24 hr
Feb 17, 3:13 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRAHAlamance, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford and 5 more52 hr
Feb 17, 4:15 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 16 more32 hr
Feb 17, 4:25 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more47 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

5 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 7, 20214winter storm warnings
  2. February 17, 20213winter storm warnings
  3. January 27, 20212winter storm warnings
  4. January 30, 20212winter storm warnings
  5. February 6, 20212winter storm warnings
  6. February 12, 20212winter storm warnings
  7. January 28, 20211winter storm warnings
  8. January 31, 20211winter storm warnings
  9. February 1, 20211winter storm warnings

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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.