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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 11, 2026Franklin County, Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2026, 5:33 PM EDT for Franklin County, Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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 11, 2026, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, NC, Nash County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2026-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2026-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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
Jul 10, 8:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHDavidson58 min
Jul 11, 2:50 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryRAHCumberland, Sampson, Wayne16 hr
Jul 11, 1:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHScotland47 min
Jul 11, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHAlamance, Durham, Orange76 min
Jul 11, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wake37 min
Jul 11, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWayne, Wilson51 min
Jul 11, 7:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHEdgecombe66 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.