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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 22, 2026Alamance County, Orange County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2026, 10:45 PM EDT for Alamance County, Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 22, 2026, 10:45 PM EDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2026, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
45 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 02:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2026-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1646 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2026-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
1646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 9:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHGranville, Person58 min
Aug 22, 9:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHForsyth, Guilford65 min
Aug 22, 10:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford45 min
Aug 22, 10:34 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford108 min
Aug 22, 10:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHAlamance, Orange53 min
Aug 22, 10:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHGuilford63 min
Aug 23, 6:32 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryRAHAnson, Cumberland, Hoke, Richmond, Scotland2 hr

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.