Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 174
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 26, 2003, 11:30 AM EDT for 41 counties in North Carolina; 6 counties in South Carolina; 8 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 2003, 11:30 AM EDT (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Southampton County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 11:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 39 min |
| Apr 26, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 23 min |
| Apr 26, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 58 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 10:03 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 54 more | 117 min |
| Apr 26, 1:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Chowan and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Anson, Avery, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 20 more | 116 min |
| Apr 26, 4:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Chowan and 34 more | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
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.