Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2003, 5:33 PM EST for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 5:33 PM EST (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
524 WFUS52 KMHX 222233 TORMHX NCC133-222300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 533 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EST * AT 533 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PINEY GREEN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF JACKSONVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF SWANSBORO AROUND 540 PM EST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3483 7740 3465 7735 3468 7712 3483 7715 3 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin | 50 min |
| Feb 22, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Hertford | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 4:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Jones | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 4:53 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 67 min | |
| Feb 22, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 5:47 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 58 min | |
| Feb 22, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven, Pamlico | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 6:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 9 min |
| Feb 22, 6:21 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 54 min | |
| Feb 22, 6:43 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 92 min | |
| Feb 22, 6:43 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 92 min |
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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.