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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 26, 20236 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2023, 9:41 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2023, 9:41 PM EDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2023, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chatham County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Randolph County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 265 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 4.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	53 min
Jun 26, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	54 min
Jun 26, 8:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	51 min
Jun 26, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	60 min
Jun 26, 8:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	119 min
Jun 26, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Moore	59 min
Jun 26, 9:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	51 min
Jun 26, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	50 min
Jun 26, 9:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	64 min
Jun 26, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Moore, Wake	63 min
Jun 26, 9:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	39 min
Jun 26, 9:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Randolph	107 min
Jun 26, 10:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	39 min
Jun 26, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Montgomery, Moore and 1 more	55 min
Jun 26, 10:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Sampson	51 min
Jun 26, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Wake	45 min
Jun 26, 10:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Stanly	28 min
Jun 26, 10:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Moore, Wake	3 hr
Jun 26, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	45 min
Jun 26, 10:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore, Sampson	53 min
Jun 26, 10:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson	52 min
Jun 26, 11:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Harnett, Lee, Montgomery, Moore	3 hr
Jun 26, 11:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax, Vance, Warren	44 min
Jun 26, 11:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery, Stanly	47 min
Jun 26, 11:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	47 min
Jun 26, 11:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	42 min
Jun 26, 11:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	42 min
Jun 26, 11:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	34 min
Jun 26, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke, Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	59 min
Jun 26, 11:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Sampson	3 hr
Jun 26, 11:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash, Wayne, Wilson	69 min
Jun 26, 11:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Cumberland	3 hr
Jun 27, 12:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson	46 min
Jun 27, 12:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke	56 min
Jun 27, 1:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson, Scotland	58 min
Jun 27, 4:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland	9 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.