Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2004, 2:53 PM EDT for Dillon County, South Carolina; Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
- Sep 17, 2004, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 888 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KILM 171853 TORILM NCC155-SCC033-171945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 253 PM EDT FRI SEP 17 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DILLON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA ROBESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 251 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LITTLE ROCK...OR OVER DILLON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ROWLAND BY 300 PM... PURVIS BY 305 PM... MAXTON BY 310 PM... PEMBROKE BY 315 PM... BUIE BY 320 PM... IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. IF YOU OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER OR WEATHER RELATED DAMAGE...REPORT IT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3445 7954 3435 7936 3473 7893 3483 7929 $$ JAQ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 112 min | |
| Sep 17, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 92 min | |
| Sep 17, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 108 min | |
| Sep 17, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 81 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.