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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2004, 3:56 PM EDT for Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Tyrrell County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 141956
TORMHX
NCC177-142030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
356 PM EDT SAT AUG 14 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
TYRRELL COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 351 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR KILKENNY...
OR 14 MILES NORTH OF SWANQUARTER...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
FRYING PAN LANDING AROUND 410 PM EDT...
COLUMBIA AROUND 415 PM EDT...
NEWFOUNDLAND AROUND 420 PM EDT...
FORT LANDING AROUND 425 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 3592 7608 3592 7608 3591 7608 3591 7607
3592 7606 3592 7607
$$
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, 1:00 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, 3:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Martin | 93 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.