Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions / 2021
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, August 2021
11 mesoscale discussions in August 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 11
- Busiest day
- August 1, 20214 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, 6:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Franklin and 9 more | 91 min |
| Aug 1, 10:54 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 4 more | 96 min |
| Aug 1, 11:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Chowan, Cumberland, Duplin, Edgecombe and 14 more | 114 min |
| Aug 1, 2:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Chatham, Columbus and 31 more | 97 min |
| Aug 7, 1:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe and 13 more | 88 min |
| Aug 14, 1:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Forsyth and 9 more | 85 min |
| Aug 17, 3:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buncombe, Burke, Cleveland, Gaston, Henderson, Lincoln and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 28 more | 65 min |
| Aug 17, 10:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba and 20 more | 116 min |
| Aug 18, 2:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank and 1 more | 97 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bertie County5
- Davidson County4
- Guilford County4
- Randolph County4
- Rockingham County4
- Wake County4
- Chowan County4
- Nash County4
- Alexander County4
- Cabarrus County4
- Davie County4
- Forsyth County4
- Iredell County4
- Rowan County4
- Surry County4
- Wilkes County4
- Yadkin County4
- Cleveland County4
- Gaston County4
- Lincoln County4
- Chatham County3
- Camden County3
- Gates County3
- Hertford County3
- Northampton County3
- Pasquotank County3
- Perquimans County3
- Tyrrell County3
- Beaufort County3
- Edgecombe County3
- Greene County3
- Harnett County3
- Lee County3
- Martin County3
- Pitt County3
- Washington County3
- Wilson County3
- Montgomery County3
- Stanly County3
- Stokes County3
50 more counties
- Catawba County3
- Mecklenburg County3
- Rutherford County3
- Alamance County2
- Caswell County2
- Durham County2
- Franklin County2
- Granville County2
- Orange County2
- Person County2
- Vance County2
- Warren County2
- Currituck County2
- Cumberland County2
- Duplin County2
- Hoke County2
- Johnston County2
- Lenoir County2
- Sampson County2
- Wayne County2
- Moore County2
- Halifax County2
- Buncombe County2
- Burke County2
- Henderson County2
- McDowell County2
- Polk County2
- Alleghany County2
- Ashe County2
- Caldwell County2
- Union County2
- Watauga County2
- Anson County1
- Bladen County1
- Columbus County1
- Craven County1
- Dare County1
- Hyde County1
- Jones County1
- New Hanover County1
- Onslow County1
- Pamlico County1
- Pender County1
- Richmond County1
- Robeson County1
- Scotland County1
- Transylvania County1
- Avery County1
- Mitchell County1
- Yancey 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.