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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 28, 2025Davidson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2025, 4:09 PM EDT for Davidson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 109 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 28, 2025, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2025, 5:58 PM EDT
In force: 109 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Davidson County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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 nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 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 28, 1:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 1:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:40 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:42 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:48 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 3:52 PM EDT, 17 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 28, 1:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Forsyth	93 min
Jun 28, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Richmond	62 min
Jun 28, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	57 min
Jun 28, 2:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Chatham, Randolph	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	48 min
Jun 28, 2:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, Wake	47 min
Jun 28, 2:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, Wake	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Randolph	3 hr
Jun 28, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax, Warren	63 min
Jun 28, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	40 min
Jun 28, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	23 min
Jun 28, 3:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Durham	3 hr
Jun 28, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	35 min
Jun 28, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	33 min
Jun 28, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	57 min
Jun 28, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance, Wake, Warren	48 min
Jun 28, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Wake	29 min
Jun 28, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance, Warren	48 min
Jun 28, 4:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance, Wake, Warren	90 min
Jun 28, 4:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Montgomery, Stanly	108 min
Jun 28, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	26 min
Jun 28, 6:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Johnston	82 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.