Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2003, 4:32 PM EDT for Anson 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
- May 31, 2003, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Anson County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
213 WFUS52 KRAH 312032 TORRAH NCC007-312115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 432 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ANSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 432 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEACHLAND...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WADESBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... POLKTON AROUND 440 PM WADESBORO AROUND 450 PM LILESVILLE AROUND 455 PM MORVEN AROUND 500 PM 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. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3516 8028 3495 8030 3470 7991 3508 7991 $$ DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Moore | 34 min |
| May 31, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 21 min |
| May 31, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 50 min |
| May 31, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 34 min |
| May 31, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 14 min |
| May 31, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 53 min |
| May 31, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 27 min |
| May 31, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham | 41 min |
| May 31, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham | 39 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.