Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2003, 6:59 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 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
- May 9, 2003, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2003, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
764 WFUS52 KMHX 092259 TORMHX NCC095-092330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 659 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MAINLAND HYDE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 659 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALLIGATOR LAKE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF BELHAVEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ALLIGATOR LAKE AROUND 705 PM EDT FAIRFIELD AROUND 715 PM EDT LAKE MATTAMUSKEET AROUND 720 PM EDT NEW HOLLAND...AND LAKE LANDING AROUND 725 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 3570 7633 3570 7655 3536 7624 3549 7600 20 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 44 min | |
| May 9, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 44 min | |
| May 9, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 12 min |
| May 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 57 min | |
| May 9, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 31 min | |
| May 9, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 37 min |
| May 9, 6:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Washington | 31 min |
| May 9, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 35 min |
| May 9, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 32 min | |
| May 9, 7:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 13 min |
| May 9, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Pamlico | 41 min |
| May 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde | 22 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.