Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 6, 2003, 5:57 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 6, 2003, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2003, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 2085 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
964 WFUS52 KMHX 062157 TORMHX NCC031-062230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 556 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 556 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO OVER MOREHEAD CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BETTIE AROUND 605 PM EDT OPEN GROUNDS FARM AROUND 615 PM EDT OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ATLANTIC...BEAUFORT... HARLOWE...NORTH RIVER...OTWAY...SEA LEVEL...SOUTH RIVER AND STACY. 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 3479 7686 3465 7673 3490 7629 3508 7646 17 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 9:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Pitt | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:14 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Aug 6, 9:14 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Aug 6, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Aug 6, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 85 min |
Nearby
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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.