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Heat Advisory 13, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 10, 20264 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this heat advisory at Jul 10, 2026, 2:08 AM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jul 10, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2026, 2:08 AM EDT (06:08 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 10, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jul 10, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 2151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 9, 7:49 PM EDT, 6 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 7:49 PM EDT, 6 hours 19 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
Jul 10, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	41 min
Jul 10, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	38 min
Jul 10, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	40 min
Jul 10, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Scotland	50 min
Jul 10, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Anson, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and 1 more	54 min
Jul 10, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Granville, Orange and 2 more	59 min
Jul 10, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph and 3 more	64 min
Jul 10, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, Wake	42 min
Jul 10, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Vance, Warren	39 min
Jul 10, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Randolph, Wake	52 min
Jul 10, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	52 min
Jul 10, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Johnston, Nash and 1 more	49 min
Jul 10, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Vance, Warren	36 min
Jul 10, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	45 min
Jul 10, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke and 8 more	79 min
Jul 10, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash	48 min
Jul 10, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash	44 min
Jul 10, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	36 min
Jul 10, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Wayne, Wilson	52 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.