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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2026, 8:23 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
- May 27, 2026, 8:23 PM EDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2026, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Chatham County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Lee County, NC, Moore County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 May 27, 7:38 PM EDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 7:38 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 5:01 AM EDT, 15 hours 22 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 501 AM EDT Wed May 27 2026 NCZ007>011-021>025-280915- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance- Orange-Durham- 501 AM EDT Wed May 27 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A few storms this afternoon and early evening could produce damaging wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ026>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-280915- Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Wake-Johnston- Wilson-Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Lee-Harnett-Wayne-Anson-Richmond- Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 501 AM EDT Wed May 27 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:19 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
419 PM EDT Wed May 27 2026
NCZ007>010-272130-
Vance NC-Person NC-Warren NC-Granville NC-
419 PM EDT Wed May 27 2026
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF
PERSON...VANCE...NORTHWESTERN WARREN AND NORTHERN GRANVILLE COUNTIES
THROUGH 530 PM EDT...
At 416 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a line of strong
thunderstorms from Yanceyville to near Clarksville, moving east at
30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Henderson, Oxford, Roxboro, Concord, Stovall, Middleburg, Mayo
Reservoir, Steele Creek Marina & Campground, Kerr Lake, and Bethel
Hill.
This includes Interstate 85 between Mile Markers 204 and 224.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
If on or near Kerr Lake, get out of the water and move indoors or
inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 10 miles
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
&&
LAT...LON 3632 7826 3624 7909 3624 7915 3654 7914
3654 7830
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 262DEG 26KT 3652 7909
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
PWBSpecial weather statement, May 27, 5:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
546 PM EDT Wed May 27 2026
NCZ008>011-026-272230-
Franklin NC-Vance NC-Warren NC-Halifax NC-Granville NC-
546 PM EDT Wed May 27 2026
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT VANCE...WARREN...NORTHERN
GRANVILLE...NORTHWESTERN HALIFAX AND NORTH CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTIES
THROUGH 630 PM EDT...
At 546 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from near Norlina to Oxford.
Movement was east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Roanoke Rapids, Henderson, Oxford, Warrenton, Norlina, Littleton,
Weldon, Middleburg, Macon, and Gillburg.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 95 near Mile Marker 173.
Interstate 85 between Mile Markers 206 and 233.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3651 7790 3650 7782 3648 7776 3649 7773
3648 7765 3645 7763 3643 7759 3620 7821
3636 7874 3655 7826 3654 7790
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 283DEG 30KT 3648 7815 3632 7859
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
LHLocal storm report, May 27, 7:30 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
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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.