Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at May 3, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT for Montgomery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 3, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 3, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
163
WFUS52 KRAH 032300
TORRAH
NCC123-032345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
700 PM EDT SAT MAY 3 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
* AT 700 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF MOUNT GILEAD...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF TROY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...
MOUNT GILEAD
PEKIN
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3514 8003 3523 8008 3532 8008 3537 8003
3540 7996 3518 7976
$$
12/14The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 24 min |
| May 3, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 24 min |
| May 3, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 40 min |
| May 3, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson | 24 min |
| May 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson | 16 min |
| May 3, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 44 min |
| May 3, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond | 47 min |
| May 3, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 14 min |
| May 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Davidson | 30 min |
| May 3, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 25 min |
| May 3, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 23 min |
| May 3, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 3, 6:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Scotland | 35 min |
| May 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 23 min |
| May 3, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 30 min |
| May 3, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 41 min |
| May 3, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond | 51 min |
| May 3, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 49 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.