Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, May 2020
49 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 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 May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 49
- Busiest day
- May 22, 202014 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, 3:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 38 min |
| May 5, 3:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 48 min |
| May 5, 4:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 27 min |
| May 5, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Macon, Swain | 28 min |
| May 5, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon, Transylvania | 38 min |
| May 5, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Transylvania | 51 min |
| May 5, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 15 min |
| May 5, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford | 53 min |
| May 5, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 57 min |
| May 5, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Robeson | 37 min |
| May 21, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Stanly | 57 min |
| May 21, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 33 min |
| May 21, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Richmond, Stanly | 60 min |
| May 21, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 51 min |
| May 21, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 56 min |
| May 21, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 24 min |
| May 22, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 42 min |
| May 22, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford | 47 min |
| May 22, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 26 min |
| May 22, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 24 min |
| May 22, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Union | 33 min |
| May 22, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 30 min |
| May 22, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 58 min |
| May 22, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore and 2 more | 63 min |
| May 22, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 54 min |
| May 22, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Sampson, Wayne | 67 min |
| May 22, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 66 min |
| May 22, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 13 min |
| May 22, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 55 min |
| May 22, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 30 min |
| May 24, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 43 min |
| May 24, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 31 min |
| May 24, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 34 min |
| May 24, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 42 min |
| May 24, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 42 min |
| May 24, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 48 min |
| May 24, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell, Rowan | 52 min |
| May 24, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 34 min |
| May 28, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 51 min |
| May 28, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 71 min |
| May 28, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore and 1 more | 49 min |
| May 28, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Stanly | 41 min |
| May 28, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 50 min |
| May 29, 10:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 46 min |
| May 29, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 27 min |
| May 29, 12:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 39 min |
| May 29, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 55 min |
| May 29, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 32 min |
| May 30, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 54 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County11
- Mecklenburg County7
- Stanly County7
- Montgomery County7
- Gaston County6
- Anson County6
- Cleveland County5
- Transylvania County5
- Richmond County5
- Henderson County4
- Robeson County4
- Harnett County4
- Polk County3
- Cumberland County3
- Cabarrus County3
- Lee County3
- Macon County2
- Rutherford County2
- Bladen County2
- Randolph County2
- Iredell County2
- Hoke County2
- Moore County2
- Duplin County2
- Jones County2
- Lenoir County2
- Onslow County2
- Rowan County2
- Graham County1
- Swain County1
- Jackson County1
- Columbus County1
- Davidson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Scotland County1
- Johnston County1
- Sampson County1
- Wayne County1
- Greene County1
- Craven 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.