Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 1:32 AM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina; Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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 13, 2004, 1:32 AM EDT (05:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brunswick County, NC, Horry County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:34 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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KILM 130532 TORILM NCC019-SCC051-130600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 131 AM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HORRY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 200 AM EDT * AT 129 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NORTH MYRTLE BEACH...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MYRTLE BEACH...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LITTLE RIVER BY 140 AM... CALABASH BY 145 AM... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3371 7885 3365 7865 3396 7852 3401 7860 $$ HOEHLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 10:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 67 min | |
| Aug 12, 11:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 54 min | |
| Aug 13, 12:32 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 118 min | |
| Aug 13, 12:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 4:39 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 66 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 57 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 47 min | |
| Aug 13, 4:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 35 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.