Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 7:46 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 2, 2003, 7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Robeson County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 2322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
677 WFUS52 KILM 022346 TORILM NCC155-030015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 745 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ROBESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 741 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BARNESVILLE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF LUMBERTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER... RURAL EASTERN ROBESON COUNTY THROUGH 800 PM. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 74 BEFORE 800 PM. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3441 7911 3437 7907 3449 7886 3461 7885 $$ TRA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 5:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 80 min | |
| Jul 2, 5:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 80 min | |
| Jul 2, 10:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Robeson | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 1:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Pender | 24 min |
| Jul 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 64 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.