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Winter Storm Warnings in North Carolina, 2025

19 winter storm warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Warnings
19
Busiest month
January13 winter storm warnings
Busiest day
January 9, 20255 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 4, 2:31 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Watauga52 hr
Jan 5, 2:26 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAvery, Caldwell20 hr
Jan 9, 11:46 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningMRXCherokee, Clay43 hr
Jan 9, 1:46 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more53 hr
Jan 9, 2:13 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAlexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more46 hr
Jan 9, 2:31 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningAKQGates, Hertford, Northampton40 hr
Jan 9, 2:39 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningRAHAlamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Edgecombe and 22 more39 hr
Jan 18, 4:15 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKWatauga51 hr
Jan 18, 3:33 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPAvery, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain and 1 more39 hr
Jan 21, 2:35 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningMHXBeaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more28 hr
Jan 21, 2:43 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningILMBladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender, Robeson28 hr
Jan 21, 3:20 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningAKQBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans29 hr
Jan 21, 11:32 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRAHCumberland, Edgecombe, Hoke, Sampson, Scotland, Wayne and 1 more19 hr
Feb 10, 3:02 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKAlleghany, Ashe, Watauga3 days
Feb 18, 3:13 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRNKCaswell, Rockingham, Stokes70 hr
Feb 18, 3:18 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningRAHEdgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Johnston, Nash and 7 more48 hr
Feb 18, 3:22 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningAKQBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more49 hr
Feb 18, 3:34 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningMHXBeaufort, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene, Jones and 7 more48 hr
Nov 9, 1:20 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGSPSwain52 hr

By county

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

60 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 9, 20255winter storm warnings
  2. January 21, 20254winter storm warnings
  3. February 18, 20254winter storm warnings
  4. January 18, 20252winter storm warnings
  5. January 4, 20251winter storm warnings
  6. January 5, 20251winter storm warnings
  7. February 10, 20251winter storm warnings
  8. November 9, 20251winter 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.