Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 2020
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, May 2020
10 tornado 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20204 tornado 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 21, 1:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 28 min |
| May 21, 2:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 31 min |
| May 21, 2:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 13 min |
| May 21, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore | 34 min |
| May 22, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 29 min |
| May 22, 3:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore | 18 min |
| May 27, 4:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Wake | 17 min |
| May 27, 7:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 22 min |
| May 28, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 35 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.