Weather service issues tornado watch for N.C. counties

Posted to: Weather North Carolina

By Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot
© August 27, 2008

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for much of North Carolina, effective until 5 p.m.

The weather service included the following counties in the watch:

*Alamance

*Anson

*Beaufort

*Bertie

*Bladen

*Camden

*Carteret

*Chatham

*Chowan

*Craven

*Cumberland

*Currituck

*Dare

*Davidson

*Duplin

*Durham

*Edgecombe

*Forsyth

*Franklin

*Gates

*Granville

*Greene

*Guilford

*Halifax

*Harnett

*Hertford

*Hoke

*Hyde

*Johnston

*Jones

*Lee

*Lenoir

*Martin

*Montgomery

*Moore

*Nash

*Northampton

*Onslow

*Orange

*Pamlico

*Pasquotank

*Pender

*Perquimans

*Person

*Pitt

*Randolph

*Richmond

*Robeson

*Sampson

*Scotland

*Stanly

*Tyrrell

*Vance

*Wake

*Warren

*Washington

*Wayne

*Wilson

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