Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2003, 6:21 PM EDT for Montgomery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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 5, 2003, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 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), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
547 WFUS52 KRAH 052221 TORRAH NCC123-052300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 621 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 621 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER PEKIN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF TROY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... RURAL SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY... 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. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND EXTERIOR WALLS AS FLYING DEBRIS GENERATED BY TORNADIC WINDS CAN BE DEADLY. 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 REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN RALEIGH. LAT...LON 3528 7988 3516 7999 3515 7976 3521 7965 $$ DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 8:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Randolph, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 9:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 10:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Alamance, Randolph | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 10:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 11:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 12:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Richmond, Scotland | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 62 min |
| Aug 5, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 6:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 118 min |
| Aug 5, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 43 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.