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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 5, 20266 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2026, 3:36 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 24 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: Sep 5, 2026, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

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

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 5, 1:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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-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: 2837 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.4

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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 Sep 5, 12:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 12:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 5, 6:09 AM EDT, 9 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 5, 9:41 AM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 9:46 AM EDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 9:50 AM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 5, 11:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 5, 1:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 5, 1:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 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
Sep 4, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Nash, Warren, Wilson	44 min
Sep 4, 8:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash	3 hr
Sep 4, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wayne and 1 more	51 min
Sep 4, 9:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash	86 min
Sep 4, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	53 min
Sep 4, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	44 min
Sep 4, 10:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wayne	61 min
Sep 5, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	52 min
Sep 5, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	62 min
Sep 5, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Person	61 min
Sep 5, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville, Orange, Person	44 min
Sep 5, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth	56 min
Sep 5, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly	59 min
Sep 5, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Randolph
Sep 5, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	23 min
Sep 5, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore, Richmond and 1 more	50 min
Sep 5, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Lee, Moore	18 min
Sep 5, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash, Wayne, Wilson	42 min
Sep 5, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	53 min
Sep 5, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Sampson	51 min
Sep 5, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance	65 min
Sep 5, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson	60 min
Sep 5, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Vance, Warren	66 min
Sep 5, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	67 min
Sep 5, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Sampson	50 min
Sep 5, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren	51 min
Sep 5, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	46 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.