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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 18, 20264 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2026, 10:52 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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 18, 2026, 10:52 PM EDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2026, 11:38 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Nash County, NC, Wake County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1685 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 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 Jul 18, 9:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 9:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 9:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 8:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 9:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 9:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 10:16 PM EDT, 36 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 18, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Orange	41 min
Jul 18, 9:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville	47 min
Jul 18, 9:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Moore, Wake	42 min
Jul 18, 10:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Lee, Nash, Wake	44 min
Jul 18, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	33 min
Jul 18, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	46 min
Jul 18, 11:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	68 min
Jul 18, 11:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne, Wilson	57 min
Jul 19, 1:17 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	RAH	Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 16 more	19 hr
Jul 19, 12:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance, Warren	37 min
Jul 19, 1:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	41 min
Jul 19, 1:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance, Warren	52 min
Jul 19, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Orange	41 min
Jul 19, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance	67 min
Jul 19, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	51 min
Jul 19, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Warren	32 min
Jul 19, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	39 min
Jul 19, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Vance, Warren	52 min
Jul 19, 2:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Vance, Warren	95 min
Jul 19, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	39 min
Jul 19, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	119 min
Jul 19, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	45 min
Jul 19, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	41 min
Jul 19, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	48 min
Jul 19, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	38 min
Jul 19, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson	30 min
Jul 19, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	45 min
Jul 19, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	50 min
Jul 19, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville	41 min
Jul 19, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	43 min
Jul 19, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	50 min
Jul 19, 4:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Granville, Vance, Warren	94 min
Jul 19, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Vance, Warren	48 min
Jul 19, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	37 min
Jul 19, 5:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Alamance	88 min
Jul 19, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance, Warren	49 min
Jul 19, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	46 min
Jul 19, 5:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Orange, Vance, Warren	105 min
Jul 19, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	23 min
Jul 19, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Franklin	47 min
Jul 19, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Wake	42 min
Jul 19, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	38 min
Jul 19, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Lee, Moore	45 min
Jul 19, 6:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Anson	116 min
Jul 19, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	42 min
Jul 19, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Harnett, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	5 hr
Jul 19, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	44 min
Jul 19, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Moore	47 min
Jul 19, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	51 min
Jul 19, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke	48 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.