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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

June 4, 2004Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2004, 1:50 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 4, 2004, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2004, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pitt County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 782 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

610 
WFUS52 KMHX 041750
TORMHX
NCC147-041830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
150 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PITT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 147 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FALKLAND...
  OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BRUCE AROUND 200 PM EDT...
  WHITEHURST AROUND 225 PM EDT...

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.

IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE
A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3574 7767 3557 7758 3569 7719 3590 7731

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	42 min
Jun 4, 2:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Martin	41 min
Jun 4, 2:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Martin	51 min
Jun 4, 3:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Martin	45 min
Jun 4, 3:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MHX	Martin	113 min
Jun 4, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	53 min
Jun 4, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		2 hr
Jun 4, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	52 min
Jun 4, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell, Washington	57 min
Jun 4, 5:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	61 min
Jun 4, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MHX		62 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.