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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 12:24 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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, 12:24 PM EDT (16:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 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), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:27 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, 8:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMHX 021624
TORMHX
NCC133-021700-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1223 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 100 PM EDT
* AT 1223 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES FROM 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF RICHLANDS TO 7 MILES WEST OF HAWS RUN...OR FROM 8
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEULAVILLE TO 17 MILES WEST OF
JACKSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
HAWS RUN AROUND 1230 PM EDT
RICHLANDS AROUND 1235 PM EDT
CATHERINE LAKE AROUND 1240 PM EDT
NEW RIVER AIR STATION AROUND 1250 PM EDT
HALF MOON AROUND 1255 PM EDT
JACKSONVILLE AROUND 100 PM EDT
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR
THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3494 7766 3472 7768 3458 7763 3481 7725
3497 7751
20
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 10:14 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 76 min | |
| Jul 2, 10:14 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 76 min | |
| Jul 2, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 11:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 89 min | |
| Jul 2, 11:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 89 min | |
| Jul 2, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 1:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 2:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 24 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.