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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 5, 2025Franklin County, Halifax County, Warren County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 2025, 1:26 PM EST for Franklin County, Halifax County, Warren County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 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: Mar 5, 2025, 1:26 PM EST (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2025, 2:30 PM EST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Warren County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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
Mar 5, 7:47 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 5, 12:26 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 629 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 843 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 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 Mar 5, 12:50 PM EST, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 12:50 PM EST, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 5, 12:27 PM EST, 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 5, 12:47 PM EST, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 5, 12:51 PM EST, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 5, 1:10 PM EST, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 5, 1:13 PM EST, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 5, 1:20 PM EST, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 5, 1:24 PM EST, 2 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
Mar 5, 7:41 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	64 min
Mar 5, 7:56 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	64 min
Mar 5, 8:17 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Forsyth	28 min
Mar 5, 8:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Richmond, Stanly	51 min
Mar 5, 8:40 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	65 min
Mar 5, 9:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Stanly	62 min
Mar 5, 9:35 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford, Randolph	55 min
Mar 5, 9:56 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	64 min
Mar 5, 10:05 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph	40 min
Mar 5, 10:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Orange, Person	53 min
Mar 5, 10:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore, Richmond and 1 more	62 min
Mar 5, 11:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Orange, Person and 2 more	74 min
Mar 5, 11:52 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson	38 min
Mar 5, 11:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Granville, Vance	17 min
Mar 5, 12:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Vance, Warren	43 min
Mar 5, 12:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Wake, Warren	69 min
Mar 5, 12:12 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wake	22 min
Mar 5, 12:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke, Scotland	46 min
Mar 5, 12:36 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance, Warren	54 min
Mar 5, 12:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Vance, Warren	39 min
Mar 5, 1:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Wake	56 min
Mar 5, 1:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash	71 min
Mar 5, 1:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	72 min
Mar 5, 2:03 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	57 min
Mar 5, 2:40 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Wilson	3 hr
Mar 5, 2:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash	64 min
Mar 5, 2:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	51 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.