Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 2004, 6:12 AM EDT for Craven 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
- Aug 13, 2004, 6:12 AM EDT (10:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Craven County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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 KMHX 131012 TORMHX NCC049-131045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 612 AM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 645 AM EDT * AT 609 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR JASPER...OR 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW BERN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... VANCEBORO AROUND 620 AM 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 3523 7738 3515 7719 3534 7705 3541 7722 $$ 17
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 59 min | |
| Aug 13, 5:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 23 min |
| Aug 13, 6:29 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Aug 13, 6:29 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 min | |
| Aug 13, 6:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 6:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 7:04 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 41 min | |
| Aug 13, 7:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Washington | 64 min |
| Aug 13, 7:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 87 min | |
| Aug 13, 7:48 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 57 min | |
| Aug 13, 7:51 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 84 min | |
| Aug 13, 8:54 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 36 min | |
| Aug 13, 8:59 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 61 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.