Strong to severe thunderstorms developed along the North Carolina and Virginia Foothills and shifted eastward into the central North Carolina Piedmont through the afternoon hours. A classic summer time regime of slow moving downbursts resulted in strong to severe wind gusts and typical flooding concerns in urban areas.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS RAH wrote it up.
Strong to severe thunderstorms developed along the North Carolina and Virginia Foothills and shifted eastward into the central North Carolina Piedmont through the afternoon hours. A classic summer time regime of slow moving downbursts resulted in strong to severe wind gusts and typical flooding concerns in urban areas.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 16, 5:45 PM EST, 21 hours 27 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:13 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was reported down on Riverside Road.
One tree was reported down near the 1000 block of Pleasant Hill Church Road.
A tree was reported down near Hickory Tree Road and North Payne Road.
Power outages were caused by a tree damaging power equipment along Hartman Road near Carrington Lane.
Power outages were caused by fallen trees damaging equipment near the intersection of Cheryl Avenue and North Roxboro Street.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2025Every state in 2025This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2025
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1277305, 1277307, 1277311, 1277312, 1277308.