Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2018

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, May 2018

56 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2018. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 56
Busiest day: May 10, 201827 severe thunderstorm 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 5, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, McDowell, Yancey	39 min
May 6, 1:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	37 min
May 6, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Warren	66 min
May 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne	46 min
May 6, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	43 min
May 10, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	45 min
May 10, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes, Surry	55 min
May 10, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk	23 min
May 10, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin	62 min
May 10, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	47 min
May 10, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes	61 min
May 10, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Catawba, Lincoln	50 min
May 10, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	47 min
May 10, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham	48 min
May 10, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	44 min
May 10, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockingham, Stokes	39 min
May 10, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	44 min
May 10, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville, Orange, Person	55 min
May 10, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk	48 min
May 10, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	45 min
May 10, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Person, Vance	42 min
May 10, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	41 min
May 10, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Vance, Warren	47 min
May 10, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville, Orange, Wake	48 min
May 10, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Vance	44 min
May 10, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Randolph	38 min
May 10, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash	46 min
May 10, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Lee, Moore, Randolph	57 min
May 10, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	70 min
May 10, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	35 min
May 10, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	26 min
May 10, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	46 min
May 10, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin, Tyrrell, Washington	42 min
May 11, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	49 min
May 11, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes, Surry	45 min
May 12, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	27 min
May 14, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cherokee, Clay	41 min
May 16, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	21 min
May 20, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin	53 min
May 21, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	23 min
May 21, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	43 min
May 21, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	42 min
May 21, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange	28 min
May 21, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Caswell, Rockingham	58 min
May 21, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	28 min
May 21, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Warren	53 min
May 21, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance	56 min
May 22, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Warren	48 min
May 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Currituck	50 min
May 23, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Wake	41 min
May 23, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	33 min
May 31, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	45 min
May 31, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	50 min
May 31, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, McDowell, Rutherford	41 min
May 31, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	47 min
May 31, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Rutherford	46 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.