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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2025, 7:16 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 17 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
- Jul 12, 2025, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2025, 7:33 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Wake County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 63 min |
| Jul 12, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 61 min |
| Jul 12, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 20 min |
| Jul 12, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham, Wake | 65 min |
| Jul 12, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 34 min |
| Jul 12, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 23 min |
| Jul 12, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 27 min |
| Jul 12, 6:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wake | 78 min |
| Jul 12, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 41 min |
| Jul 12, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 13 min |
| Jul 12, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Moore | 29 min |
| Jul 12, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham | 34 min |
| Jul 12, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Randolph | 36 min |
| Jul 12, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Richmond | 45 min |
| Jul 12, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Richmond | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham | 41 min |
Nearby
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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.