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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2026, 8:04 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 22, 2026, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2026, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Durham County, NC, Granville County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 376 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Warren | 54 min |
| Jun 22, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Vance | 14 min |
| Jun 22, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 9:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 57 min |
| Jun 22, 9:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 10:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Randolph | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 10:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 11:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Vance, Warren | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Halifax | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 1:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Durham, Wake | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 2:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wilson | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson, Wayne | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Sampson, Wayne | 54 min |
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.