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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2026, 5:03 PM EDT for Alamance County, Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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
- Aug 14, 2026, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alamance County, NC, Orange County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 58 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1946 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 13, 7:10 PM EDT, 21 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 7:10 PM EDT, 21 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 73 min |
| Aug 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RAH | Anson, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Lee and 7 more | 30 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 69 min |
| Aug 14, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham, Orange | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2026Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2026
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.