Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 1:00 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 021700
TORMHX
NCC133-021730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
100 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 130 PM EDT
* AT 100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CATHERINE LAKE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST
OF JACKSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
HALF MOON AROUND 110 PM EDT
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 3486 7762 3470 7751 3486 7725 3492 7729
3491 7737 3495 7746
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, 12:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 36 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.