Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings / 2020
Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, May 2020
16 flash flood warnings in May 2020. 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 flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Flash Flood Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20205 flash flood warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell, Polk, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| May 19, 2:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 3 hr |
| May 21, 5:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 113 min |
| May 21, 6:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 2 hr |
| May 21, 8:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 12:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 3 hr |
| May 21, 1:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 11 hr |
| May 24, 8:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 6 hr |
| May 27, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| May 27, 7:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| May 28, 4:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Columbus | 2 hr |
| May 28, 6:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Sampson | 3 hr |
| May 28, 9:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Sampson | 3 hr |
| May 29, 11:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Sampson, Wayne | 3 hr |
| May 29, 2:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 3 hr |
| May 29, 4:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Columbus County3
- Stanly County3
- Sampson County3
- Polk County2
- Rutherford County2
- Brunswick County2
- Anson County2
- Montgomery County2
- Richmond County2
- Onslow County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- McDowell County1
- Davidson County1
- Forsyth County1
- Guilford County1
- Randolph County1
- Duplin County1
- Jones County1
- Lenoir County1
- Rockingham County1
- Wayne County1
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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.