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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2004, 12:31 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 14, 2004, 12:31 PM EDT (16:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2004, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:34 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 14, 3:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Aug 14, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 141631 TORMHX NCC133-141700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1231 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1229 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FOLKSTONE AROUND 1240 PM EDT... DIXON AROUND 1245 PM EDT... VERONA AROUND 1255 PM EDT... OTHER LOCATIONS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HOLLY RIDGE...SNEADS FERRY...HAWS RUN...HALF MOON AND CATHERINE LAKE. 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 3433 7765 3431 7744 3482 7732 3485 7759 $$ 8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 10:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 1:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 3:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 3:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Martin | 93 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.