Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, August 2020
53 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 2020. 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 53
- Busiest day
- August 1, 20209 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Ashe, Watauga, Wilkes | 57 min |
| Jul 31, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell, Iredell | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell, Rockingham | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Orange, Person, Wake | 43 min |
| Aug 1, 12:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wayne and 1 more | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Wake | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 12:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 12:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 12:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 3:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham, Stokes | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Franklin, Granville, Wake | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Ashe | 58 min |
| Aug 6, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes, Surry, Wilkes, Yadkin | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth, Guilford | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 16 min |
| Aug 7, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson, Wayne | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 32 min |
| Aug 10, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 29 min |
| Aug 10, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 17 min |
| Aug 13, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 11 min |
| Aug 17, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell, Rowan | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 52 min |
| Aug 19, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Rutherford | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hertford, Northampton | 38 min |
| Aug 28, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 3:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 6:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 61 min |
| Aug 31, 6:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 49 min |
| Aug 31, 10:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 50 min |
| Aug 31, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 38 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cleveland County9
- Lincoln County8
- Gaston County7
- Catawba County6
- Wake County6
- Rutherford County5
- Burke County4
- Iredell County4
- Franklin County4
- Caldwell County3
- Caswell County3
- Rockingham County3
- Johnston County3
- Nash County3
- Wilson County3
- Stokes County3
- Mecklenburg County3
- Ashe County2
- Wilkes County2
- Durham County2
- Granville County2
- Orange County2
- Person County2
- Wayne County2
- Surry County2
- Polk County2
- Guilford County2
- Robeson County2
- Union County2
- Rowan County2
- McDowell County2
- Stanly County2
- Watauga County1
- Alexander County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Chatham County1
- Harnett County1
- Alleghany County1
- Yadkin County1
- Forsyth 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.