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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 16, 2026Franklin County, Nash County, Warren County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Mar 16, 2026, 3:21 AM EDT for Franklin County, Nash County, Warren County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 16, 2026, 3:21 AM EDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 2026, 4:15 AM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Hail
0.50 in
Wind
40

Counties Franklin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Warren County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2026-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2026-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 338 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
338 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
669 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 16, 2:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 2:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 3:21 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 4:27 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHChatham, Durham, Franklin, Orange, Wake63 min
Mar 16, 8:06 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford54 min
Mar 16, 8:43 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHMoore47 min
Mar 16, 8:47 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHCumberland, Johnston43 min
Mar 16, 9:13 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHalifax, Nash62 min
Mar 16, 9:18 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson42 min
Mar 16, 9:31 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson44 min
Mar 16, 9:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHCumberland, Johnston45 min
Mar 16, 9:49 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Stanly41 min
Mar 16, 10:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford44 min
Mar 16, 10:13 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford32 min
Mar 16, 10:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAnson, Davidson, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly41 min
Mar 16, 10:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHEdgecombe, Nash, Wilson62 min
Mar 16, 10:36 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHMontgomery, Moore, Randolph, Stanly24 min
Mar 16, 10:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance, Chatham, Guilford, Lee, Montgomery, Moore and 2 more35 min
Mar 16, 10:56 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHJohnston34 min
Mar 16, 11:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHAlamance, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Lee, Orange and 1 more61 min
Mar 16, 12:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHLee, Wake66 min
Mar 16, 1:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHFranklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren65 min
Mar 16, 2:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson29 min
Mar 16, 2:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHEdgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Wilson54 min
Mar 16, 2:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWayne37 min
Mar 16, 3:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson55 min
Mar 16, 4:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHAnson, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph and 2 more54 min
Mar 16, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAnson, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and 1 more39 min
Mar 16, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph51 min
Mar 16, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance, Chatham, Guilford, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery and 4 more52 min
Mar 16, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Granville, Harnett and 8 more40 min
Mar 16, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Cumberland, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett and 10 more66 min
Mar 16, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Sampson and 5 more74 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.