Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 8:16 PM EDT for Craven County, Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 23, 2004, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Craven County, NC, Jones County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
120 WFUS52 KMHX 240016 TORMHX NCC049-103-240100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 816 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JONES COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 813 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR DOVER...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF KINSTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FORT BARNWELL AROUND 830 PM EDT... JASPER AROUND 840 PM EDT... TUSCARORA AROUND 845 PM EDT... ERNUL AROUND 855 PM EDT... 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 DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3535 7747 3516 7755 3500 7699 3530 7691 $$ 18
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 8:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 29 min | |
| Jun 23, 8:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 29 min | |
| Jun 23, 8:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 86 min | |
| Jun 23, 8:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 86 min | |
| Jun 23, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Pamlico | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 10:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 63 min | |
| Jun 23, 11:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 50 min | |
| Jun 24, 12:15 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 60 min | |
| Jun 24, 12:15 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 60 min |
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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.