Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, August 2012
11 mesoscale discussions in August 2012. 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 mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.
Mesoscale Discussions by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 11
- Busiest day
- August 15, 20122 mesoscale discussions
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Graham, Haywood and 7 more | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 8:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 1:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, Swain | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 7:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry | 119 min |
| Aug 11, 1:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Chowan and 33 more | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 2:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden and 38 more | 89 min |
| Aug 15, 4:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus and 15 more | 86 min |
| Aug 19, 9:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 25 more | 97 min |
| Aug 19, 1:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Craven, Currituck and 10 more | 97 min |
| Aug 24, 8:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carteret, Pamlico | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 6:12 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford and 5 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Beaufort County5
- Chowan County5
- Camden County5
- Currituck County5
- Pasquotank County5
- Tyrrell County5
- Washington County5
- Craven County4
- Gates County4
- Hertford County4
- Jones County4
- Lenoir County4
- New Hanover County4
- Onslow County4
- Pender County4
- Perquimans County4
- Carteret County4
- Dare County4
- Hyde County4
- Pamlico County4
- Cherokee County3
- Bertie County3
- Bladen County3
- Brunswick County3
- Columbus County3
- Duplin County3
- Greene County3
- Martin County3
- Pitt County3
- Sampson County3
- Wayne County3
- Graham County2
- Macon County2
- Swain County2
- Chatham County2
- Cumberland County2
- Durham County2
- Edgecombe County2
- Franklin County2
- Granville County2
36 more counties
- Halifax County2
- Harnett County2
- Hoke County2
- Johnston County2
- Lee County2
- Nash County2
- Northampton County2
- Robeson County2
- Scotland County2
- Vance County2
- Wake County2
- Warren County2
- Wilson County2
- Ashe County1
- Avery County1
- Buncombe County1
- Haywood County1
- Jackson County1
- Madison County1
- Mitchell County1
- Watauga County1
- Yancey County1
- Clay County1
- Caswell County1
- Rockingham County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Alamance County1
- Anson County1
- Cabarrus County1
- Montgomery County1
- Moore County1
- Orange County1
- Randolph County1
- Richmond County1
- Stanly 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.