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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 2:47 PM EDT for Jones County, Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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, 2:47 PM EDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jones County, NC, Onslow County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.
273 WFUS52 KMHX 021847 TORMHX NCC103-133-021930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 248 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JONES COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF DEPPE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF JACKSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DEPPE AROUND 300 PM EDT MAYSVILLE AROUND 315 PM EDT POLLOCKSVILLE AROUND 325 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 3491 7744 3478 7733 3496 7710 3510 7725 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, 2:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 26 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.