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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 6, 2026Anson County, Richmond County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2026, 2:58 PM EDT for Anson County, Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 6, 2026, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2026, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Anson County, NC, Richmond County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 976 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 987 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 6, 2:06 PM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:06 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 4:07 AM EDT, 10 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 2:33 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 2:52 PM EDT, 6 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
Jul 6, 2:04 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	RAH	Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston and 8 more	18 hr
Jul 6, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	57 min
Jul 6, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	53 min
Jul 6, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland	62 min
Jul 6, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland	43 min
Jul 6, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Person	55 min
Jul 6, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	57 min
Jul 6, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	38 min
Jul 6, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Person, Vance	44 min
Jul 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	61 min
Jul 6, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Randolph	19 min
Jul 6, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	44 min
Jul 6, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	58 min
Jul 6, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	47 min
Jul 6, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	46 min
Jul 6, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Johnston	41 min
Jul 6, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson	54 min
Jul 6, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson	43 min
Jul 6, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	59 min
Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	46 min
Jul 6, 7:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Johnston, Wake	34 min
Jul 6, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	59 min
Jul 6, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Johnston, Wake	43 min
Jul 6, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	61 min
Jul 6, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	40 min
Jul 6, 7:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	4 hr
Jul 6, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake	50 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.