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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 16, 2025Guilford County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2025, 5:11 PM EDT for Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 16, 2025, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2025, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Guilford County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 10 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: 568 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 16, 2:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 2:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 4:35 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:36 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:44 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:46 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:49 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:53 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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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 15, 8:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Johnston	3 hr
Jun 15, 8:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	56 min
Jun 15, 9:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Johnston	74 min
Jun 15, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	35 min
Jun 16, 12:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	54 min
Jun 16, 12:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Wilson	3 hr
Jun 16, 12:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Orange, Person, Vance and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 16, 1:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash	3 hr
Jun 16, 2:59 AM EDT	Flood Watch	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more	23 hr
Jun 16, 3:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	2 hr
Jun 16, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke	44 min
Jun 16, 2:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash, Wilson	119 min
Jun 16, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	46 min
Jun 16, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	40 min
Jun 16, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	39 min
Jun 16, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne	25 min
Jun 16, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	16 min
Jun 16, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	14 min
Jun 16, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	41 min
Jun 16, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth, Guilford	37 min
Jun 16, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery	43 min
Jun 16, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	52 min
Jun 16, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	48 min
Jun 16, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	46 min
Jun 16, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	27 min
Jun 16, 5:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wake	3 hr
Jun 16, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore, Randolph	43 min
Jun 16, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Guilford	55 min
Jun 16, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	38 min
Jun 16, 6:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	96 min
Jun 16, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	77 min
Jun 16, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	58 min
Jun 16, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	38 min
Jun 16, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Lee	56 min
Jun 16, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Wake	24 min
Jun 16, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Wake	34 min
Jun 16, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Orange	41 min

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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.