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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2025, 2:35 PM EDT for Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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 27, 2025, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2025, 3:14 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- 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 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 1:58 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:58 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 4:30 AM EDT, 10 hours 5 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 430 AM EDT Fri Jun 27 2025 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-280830- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance- Orange-Durham-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Wake- Johnston-Wilson-Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Lee-Harnett-Wayne-Anson- Richmond-Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 430 AM EDT Fri Jun 27 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. There is a Marginal Risk (level 1 of 5) for severe storms and a Marginal Risk (level 1 of 4) for excessive rainfall this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:54 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
154 PM EDT Fri Jun 27 2025
NCZ026-027-041>043-271900-
Nash NC-Johnston NC-Franklin NC-Wake NC-Wilson NC-
154 PM EDT Fri Jun 27 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN NASH...EAST CENTRAL
WAKE...WEST CENTRAL WILSON...NORTHEASTERN JOHNSTON AND SOUTH CENTRAL
FRANKLIN COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT...
At 154 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles south of Zebulon, or 12 miles northeast of Smithfield, moving
northwest at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Clayton, Zebulon, Bailey, Selma, Wendell, Middlesex, Pilot, Emit,
Buckhorn Reservoir, and Flowers.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3569 7804 3553 7827 3570 7856 3596 7828
TIME...MOT...LOC 1754Z 116DEG 6KT 3568 7826
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
1The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 100 min |
| Jun 26, 8:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Lee | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 22 min |
| Jun 27, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 2:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Richmond | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Montgomery, Moore | 39 min |
| Jun 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 4:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Hoke, Montgomery, Moore | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Wake | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Wake | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 6:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Johnston, Sampson | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Sampson | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wilson | 53 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.