Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 4:36 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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 12, 2004, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Duplin County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 122036 TORMHX NCC061-122115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 436 PM EDT THU AUG 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DUPLIN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 435 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WALLACE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GREENEVERS AROUND 445 PM EDT... CHINQUAPIN AROUND 455 PM EDT... BEULAVILLE AROUND 505 PM EDT... POTTERS HILL AROUND 510 PM EDT... 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 YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-800-889-6889...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3470 7812 3470 7770 3493 7760 3507 7782 $$ 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 38 min | |
| Aug 12, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 62 min | |
| Aug 12, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Onslow | 24 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.