Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 2:19 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Craven County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
270 WFUS52 KMHX 021819 TORMHX NCC049-021845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 219 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 219 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER JASPER...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW BERN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ERNUL AROUND 235 PM EDT CAYTON AROUND 240 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 3519 7725 3512 7714 3528 7695 3537 7711 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, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 1:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:47 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.