Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Yadkin County, North Carolina

2,726 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Yadkin County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,726
Warnings
662
Watches
412
Advisories
444
Busiest year
2011193 alerts
Average year
68over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 67% of tornado reports in Yadkin County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 3 minutes before, and 88% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
201050100%0
201150100%0
201610100%0
2017220%250%3 min
201930100%0
202010100%0
202120100%0
20228275%1100%3 min
202430100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008181422%1258%16 min
200914657%786%21 min
2010302420%2190%29 min
2011514414%2488%26 min
2012191616%786%25 min
2013141029%1776%22 min
201412118%4100%17 min
2015550%367%14 min
2016191616%2268%23 min
2017770%1464%14 min
2018181611%1889%21 min
2019141214%1765%29 min
202012925%786%10 min
2021191332%1613%24 min
202217166%1182%21 min
202316156%22100%20 min
202411110%1070%20 min
2025211910%1258%24 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009220%0
20104250%1100%102 min
20113233%250%78 min
2012110%1100%52 min
20132150%0
201610100%0
20189633%5100%128 min
20193167%0
2020550%560%73 min
20213167%0
202210100%0
202310100%0
20245420%367%55 min
202530100%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 21, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK36 min
Sep 21, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK49 min
Sep 5, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK60 min
Sep 4, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK62 min
Aug 17, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK22 min
Aug 15, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK41 min
Aug 15, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK64 min
Aug 11, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK54 min
Aug 1, 8:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNK8 hr
Jul 18, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK19 min
Jul 18, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK26 min
Jul 18, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK66 min

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.