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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2026, 5:46 PM EDT for Johnston County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 18, 2026, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2026, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Johnston County, NC, Wake County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 587 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1404 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 Sep 18, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 248 AM EDT Fri Sep 18 2026 NCZ007>010-021>026-038>042-073>077-083>086-088-089-190700- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance-Orange- Durham-Franklin-Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Wake-Johnston-Stanly- Montgomery-Moore-Lee-Harnett-Anson-Richmond-Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland- Sampson- 248 AM EDT Fri Sep 18 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Scattered to locally numerous showers and storms are expected this afternoon into the evening hours. Isolated instances of strong to severe winds, 40-60 mph, will be possible, but highly conditional in an otherwise unfavorable weather pattern to produce widespread severe weather. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. NCZ011-027-028-043-078-190700- Halifax-Nash-Edgecombe-Wilson-Wayne- 248 AM EDT Fri Sep 18 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...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 18, 5:10 PM EDT, 36 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 |
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| Sep 18, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Randolph | 39 min |
| Sep 18, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph | 41 min |
| Sep 18, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Guilford, Randolph | 48 min |
| Sep 18, 2:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 11 min |
| Sep 18, 3:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery | 59 min |
| Sep 18, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Scotland | 67 min |
| Sep 18, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee, Randolph | 46 min |
| Sep 18, 3:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 92 min |
| Sep 18, 3:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Forsyth | 91 min |
| Sep 18, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett, Lee, Moore | 55 min |
| Sep 18, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin, Granville, Vance | 65 min |
| Sep 18, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Stanly | 44 min |
| Sep 18, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee, Orange | 37 min |
| Sep 18, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston | 44 min |
| Sep 18, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 39 min |
| Sep 18, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 44 min |
| Sep 18, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Sampson, Wake, Wayne | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 44 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.