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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2025, 3:11 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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 25, 2025, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Nash County, NC, Vance County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 4034 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 25, 2:26 PM EDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:26 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 25, 3:41 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 39 hr |
| Jun 25, 12:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Warren | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Vance | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Vance, Warren | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren | 29 min |
| Jun 25, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 3:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson | 40 min |
| Jun 25, 3:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wayne and 1 more | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 4:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond, Scotland | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 5:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Hoke, Richmond, Scotland | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore | 56 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.