Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, May 2021
3 severe thunderstorm watches 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20212 severe thunderstorm watches
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 4, 9:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, Swain | 3 hr |
| May 4, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee and 7 more | 3 hr |
| May 10, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Chatham, Craven, Cumberland, Davidson and 25 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cumberland County2
- Harnett County2
- Hoke County2
- Lee County2
- Montgomery County2
- Moore County2
- Sampson County2
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Graham County1
- Macon County1
- Swain County1
- Anson County1
- Bladen County1
- Richmond County1
- Robeson County1
- Scotland County1
- Stanly County1
- Alamance County1
- Beaufort County1
- Chatham County1
- Craven County1
- Davidson County1
- Duplin County1
- Durham County1
- Edgecombe County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Guilford County1
- Johnston County1
- Jones County1
- Lenoir County1
- Martin County1
- Nash County1
- Onslow County1
- Orange County1
- Pamlico County1
- Pitt County1
- Randolph County1
- Wake County1
2 more counties
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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.