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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2025, 7:20 AM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- May 17, 2025, 7:20 AM EDT (11:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2025, 8:03 AM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Davidson County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Stanly County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 4:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 7:15 PM EDT, 12 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 4:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford | 53 min |
| May 17, 5:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville, Person, Vance, Warren | 53 min |
| May 17, 5:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Orange, Randolph | 65 min |
| May 17, 5:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Wake | 48 min |
| May 17, 6:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Stanly | 64 min |
| May 17, 6:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Wake | 71 min |
| May 17, 7:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery | 62 min |
| May 17, 7:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 37 min |
| May 17, 8:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2025Every severe thunderstorm 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.