Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2003, 7:06 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 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, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Duplin County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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, 2:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
995 WFUS52 KMHX 022306 TORMHX NCC061-022330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 706 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 706 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER FAISON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF WARSAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BEAUTANCUS AROUND 715 PM EDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BOWDENS AND CALYPSO. 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 3516 7827 3500 7817 3517 7773 3537 7786 13 $$
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, 2:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones, Onslow | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 38 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.