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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 26, 2025Davidson County, Randolph County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 2025, 4:10 PM EDT for Davidson County, Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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
Sep 26, 2025, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Davidson County, NC, Randolph County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 38 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2025-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 279 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2025-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 8:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHalifax29 min
Sep 26, 3:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHDavidson64 min
Sep 26, 5:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHRandolph52 min
Sep 26, 5:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHBladen61 min
Sep 26, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHarnett41 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.