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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 27, 2025Guilford County, North Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2025-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 249 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2025-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 27, 1:58 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:58 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 8:09 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHChatham, Lee100 min
Jun 26, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHLee54 min
Jun 26, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake22 min
Jun 27, 1:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHJohnston66 min
Jun 27, 2:14 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHGuilford3 hr
Jun 27, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHMontgomery, Moore, Richmond66 min
Jun 27, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke, Montgomery, Moore39 min
Jun 27, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wake38 min
Jun 27, 4:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHHoke, Montgomery, Moore2 hr
Jun 27, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Granville, Wake37 min
Jun 27, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Sampson49 min
Jun 27, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHGuilford60 min
Jun 27, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Granville, Wake46 min
Jun 27, 6:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHJohnston, Sampson2 hr
Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson63 min
Jun 27, 7:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWilson53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in North Carolina, 2025Every flash flood warning in 2025

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.