Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions / 2021
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, March 2021
14 mesoscale discussions in March 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 March 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 14
- Busiest day
- March 18, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 10:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rutherford and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden and 45 more | 63 min |
| Mar 18, 7:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe and 21 more | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 5:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain | 119 min |
| Mar 26, 1:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Columbus, Hoke, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland | 94 min |
| Mar 27, 1:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 42 more | 66 min |
| Mar 27, 4:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 19 more | 56 min |
| Mar 27, 7:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Hyde and 7 more | 97 min |
| Mar 28, 2:25 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 12:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland and 19 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck and 13 more | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 2:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Chatham and 43 more | 113 min |
| Mar 31, 6:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Robeson | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Stanly County7
- Alamance County6
- Anson County6
- Chatham County6
- Durham County6
- Harnett County6
- Hoke County6
- Lee County6
- Montgomery County6
- Moore County6
- Orange County6
- Person County6
- Randolph County6
- Richmond County6
- Wake County6
- Cabarrus County5
- Mecklenburg County5
- Union County5
- Cumberland County5
- Franklin County5
- Granville County5
- Greene County5
- Johnston County5
- Nash County5
- Scotland County5
- Vance County5
- Warren County5
- Rowan County4
- Beaufort County4
- Caswell County4
- Edgecombe County4
- Gates County4
- Guilford County4
- Halifax County4
- Hertford County4
- Lenoir County4
- Pitt County4
- Wayne County4
- Wilson County4
- Robeson County4
54 more counties
- Cleveland County3
- Gaston County3
- Lincoln County3
- Bertie County3
- Chowan County3
- Davidson County3
- Martin County3
- Northampton County3
- Perquimans County3
- Sampson County3
- Washington County3
- Columbus County3
- Craven County3
- Jones County3
- Rutherford County2
- Camden County2
- Currituck County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Rockingham County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Graham County2
- Jackson County2
- Macon County2
- Swain County2
- Duplin County2
- Hyde County2
- Onslow County2
- Pamlico County2
- Bladen County2
- Alexander County1
- Burke County1
- Caldwell County1
- Catawba County1
- Davie County1
- Forsyth County1
- Iredell County1
- McDowell County1
- Polk County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Wilkes County1
- Yadkin County1
- Carteret County1
- Avery County1
- Buncombe County1
- Haywood County1
- Madison County1
- Mitchell County1
- Watauga County1
- Yancey County1
- Tyrrell County1
- Pender County1
- Brunswick 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.