Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions / 2021
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, May 2021
9 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 12:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 20 more | 115 min |
| May 4, 1:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caswell, Northampton, Person, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 2 more | 56 min |
| May 4, 1:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Macon | 114 min |
| May 4, 4:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham and 35 more | 119 min |
| May 10, 12:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Carteret and 46 more | 114 min |
| May 10, 6:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edgecombe, Franklin, Greene, Johnston, Lenoir, Martin and 5 more | 53 min |
| May 10, 8:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Harnett, Hoke and 6 more | 58 min |
| May 24, 1:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caswell, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Orange, Person and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 12:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 59 more | 113 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wake County6
- Cumberland County5
- Edgecombe County5
- Greene County5
- Harnett County5
- Johnston County5
- Lenoir County5
- Nash County5
- Pitt County5
- Wayne County5
- Wilson County5
- Vance County5
- Warren County5
- Franklin County5
- Bladen County4
- Duplin County4
- Martin County4
- Pender County4
- Sampson County4
- Caswell County4
- Person County4
- Chatham County4
- Durham County4
- Granville County4
- Hoke County4
- Lee County4
- Moore County4
- Orange County4
- Randolph County4
- Beaufort County3
- Carteret County3
- Columbus County3
- Craven County3
- Jones County3
- New Hanover County3
- Onslow County3
- Pamlico County3
- Robeson County3
- Northampton County3
- Alamance County3
32 more counties
- Cabarrus County3
- Davidson County3
- Guilford County3
- Montgomery County3
- Stanly County3
- Brunswick County2
- Anson County2
- Mecklenburg County2
- Richmond County2
- Scotland County2
- Union County2
- Bertie County2
- Camden County2
- Chowan County2
- Currituck County2
- Dare County2
- Gates County2
- Halifax County2
- Hertford County2
- Hyde County2
- Pasquotank County2
- Perquimans County2
- Tyrrell County2
- Washington County2
- Rowan County2
- Rockingham County1
- Stokes County1
- Surry County1
- Clay County1
- Macon County1
- Davie County1
- Iredell 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.