July ‘26 obs

[olafminesaw]

Dewpoint hit 77 at the airport, highest since 2021

[Chinook]

tornado warning for Chapel Hill NC

[KrummWx]

4 minutes ago, Chinook said:

tornado warning for Chapel Hill NC

Where in these images would the tornado be? Severe wx noob, I got my gf in wesrern Mebane rn

[Snowacane]

5 minutes ago, KrummWx said:

Where in these images would the tornado be? Severe wx noob, I got my gf in wesrern Mebane rn

Past her now, if there was anything

[UnionCountyNCWX]

Light to moderate rain in CLT. Temp of 83. Storms fell completely apart approaching the city 

[Chinook]

19 minutes ago, KrummWx said:

Where in these images would the tornado be? Severe wx noob, I got my gf in wesrern Mebane rn

The hook shape near Burlington plus the difference in velocities by Burlington. The velocities are inbound/outbound from the radar. (It can't see cross-wise wind). In this case, a somewhat small difference of like 30mph may be an indicator of a tornado, which of course has much stronger winds.

[UnionCountyNCWX]

21 minutes ago, UnionCountyNCWX said:

Light to moderate rain in CLT. Temp of 83. Storms fell completely apart approaching the city 

The storm near Gastonia apparently decided to alter its course and build almost due east towards CLT. temp down to 81. No precip and building thunder. 

[Avdave]

Absolutely dumping rain here in Brier creek. Lightning has been very impressive.  I think a street light got struck as there was a bright flash driving home near Wake Med hospital in BC.  Flash Flood warnings in effect here as well  .57" so far this evening. 

[Droessl]

Lightning is like a strobe light the last 15 minutes near Creedmoor and 540. 

[Snowacane]

LOL ended up with .20 rain.

[NorthHillsWx]

Dumping rain. Maybe Raleigh breaks the all time July record

[Avdave]

Just staying on top of us.  Up to 1.20" so far.   Getting power surges every so often now. 

[Avdave]

Lost power here for ten mins or so with that last hit from the storms. Pretty impressive with the windswept heavy rain and tons of lightning.  Looks like we will finish up with 2.57" here. Incredible. 

[marsman]

Lots of bark but no bite in south Cary:  .09". Just a few miles north I know you got hit pretty good. 

[cbmclean]

Rain, thunder, lightning, the works.

[cbmclean]

1 hour ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Dumping rain. Maybe Raleigh breaks the all time July record

Any idea what is the all-time wettest month?

[NorthHillsWx]

Absolutely one of the worst storms I can remember living in the Raleigh area for most of my 37 years. Powers out for half the neighborhood including the street behind me, we lost power for several short durations, but the wind In the last cell that came through made it sound like a hurricane. It was a ton of lightning at the beginning but all the flashes with the final cell were transformers blowing. There’s a big tree in the power lines one street over and I’m sure there are plenty down in this area. Never saw any hail but it sounded like it was mixed in against the windows. Anyone else go through that final cell and have same experience? I was going to call this a dud besides the rainfall until that came through. Picked up 1.02” here which brings the MTD to a shocking 14.49”

[NorthHillsWx]

Duke outage map confirms it, 17k out in this area alone. This is telling:

https://outagemap.duke-energy.com/#/current-outages/ncsc

[Cyric297]

1 hour ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Absolutely one of the worst storms I can remember living in the Raleigh area for most of my 37 years. Powers out for half the neighborhood including the street behind me, we lost power for several short durations, but the wind In the last cell that came through made it sound like a hurricane. It was a ton of lightning at the beginning but all the flashes with the final cell were transformers blowing. There’s a big tree in the power lines one street over and I’m sure there are plenty down in this area. Never saw any hail but it sounded like it was mixed in against the windows. Anyone else go through that final cell and have same experience? I was going to call this a dud besides the rainfall until that came through. Picked up 1.02” here which brings the MTD to a shocking 14.49”

I must be very close to you.  We also have lost power, however I didn't notice the crazy wind, but am being told by my SO that it was worse than I thought.  I also didn't see any hail but definitely super heavy rain.  And a crazy amount of lightning with the power going out right near the end.  I'm not far from Shelley lake in Raleigh if that helps nail down the area.

 

Where is the tree down at?

[NorthHillsWx]

16 minutes ago, Cyric297 said:

I must be very close to you.  We also have lost power, however I didn't notice the crazy wind, but am being told by my SO that it was worse than I thought.  I also didn't see any hail but definitely super heavy rain.  And a crazy amount of lightning with the power going out right near the end.  I'm not far from Shelley lake in Raleigh if that helps nail down the area.

 

Where is the tree down at?

Duke street and stonehill have trees down near me. Im close to Millbrook and six forks in the lakemont area. Quiet out now so you can hear all the generators running.

[Cyric297]

17 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Duke street and stonehill have trees down near me. Im close to Millbrook and six forks in the lakemont area. Quiet out now so you can hear all the generators running.

Yes, thats very close.  Just walked the neighborhood and the end of Northclift near North hills has power.  I can hear the cell tower generators running across the lake near lead mine.  Based on the little damage I am seeing around here, I definitely think we didn't get as strong winds as you/they did just a half mile/mile east of here.  Only small branches and debris on the ground over here.  

[olafminesaw]

[NorthHillsWx]

There are several large trees down near me including one completely blocking millbrook rd. Unfortunately last night did not come without loss of life, a tree fell on a house in wake county killing a man

[cbmclean]

Ended up with 0.66" last night plus plenty of thunder and lightning.  Will end up with 9.41" for the month.

[cbmclean]

7 hours ago, olafminesaw said:

That should make it the wettest in RDU (as opposed to Raleigh NWS) history correct?

[suzook]

Kept hearing about how the humidity was gonna be lower today....88 degrees, with a DewPoint of 82...WTF. Terrible out today.

[GaWx]

 It already hit 99.5 at 2:15PM at my place! The highest so far this season that I’ve seen here is 101.1, which was at 2:35PM on July 12th.

 Winds are from the SW, keeping the seabreeze away. Skies are mostly to partly sunny with an ugly haze.