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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2004, 1:00 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 141700
TORMHX
NCC133-141730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1259 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 130 PM EDT
* AT 1255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HAWS RUN...
OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
CATHERINE LAKE AROUND 110 PM EDT...
THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.
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 3472 7769 3472 7768 3490 7765 3492 7765
3497 7768 3498 7765 3497 7761 3464 7743
3462 7743 3455 7761
$$
8The 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, 12:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 29 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.