Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 2004, 2:27 PM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 13, 2004, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2004, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 1252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 131827 TORMHX NCC031-131900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 227 PM EDT TUE APR 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 226 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MOREHEAD CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OPEN GROUNDS FARM AROUND 240 PM... SOUTH RIVER AROUND 245 PM... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER 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. 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3472 7685 3465 7665 3512 7634 3522 7659 $$ 5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 11:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 60 min | |
| Apr 13, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 60 min | |
| Apr 13, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 40 min |
| Apr 13, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 65 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.