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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2025, 6:57 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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 15, 2025, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2025, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Nash County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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.
NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 1152 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-076>078-089-161600- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance- Orange-Durham-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Wake- Johnston-Wilson-Lee-Harnett-Wayne-Sampson- 1152 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025 ...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. Additionally, there is a marginal risk (level 1 of 5) of severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. A few strong to locally damaging wind gusts are possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Heat indices may reach 100 to 105 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday, which could be dangerous to those people sensitive to heat. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. NCZ073>075-083>086-088-161600- Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Anson-Richmond-Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland- 1152 AM EDT Sun Jun 15 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. There is a marginal risk (level 1 of 4) of flash flooding this afternoon and evening. The main hazard is expected to be mostly urban and small stream flooding in slow moving showers and thunderstorms. Additionally, there is a marginal risk (level 1 of 5) of severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. A few strong to locally damaging wind gusts are possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Heat indices are expected to reach 100 to 105 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday, which could be dangerous to those people sensitive to heat. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren | 80 min |
| Jun 14, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 2:18 AM EDT | Flood Watch | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth and 17 more | 21 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Halifax | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Halifax | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Nash | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe, Franklin, Nash, Wilson | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 44 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.