Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 2004, 2:12 PM 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 15, 2004, 2:12 PM EDT (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2004, 2:45 PM 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), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 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 151812
TORMHX
NCC049-151845-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
212 PM EDT SUN AUG 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 245 PM EDT
* AT 211 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR NORTH
HARLOWE...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF MOREHEAD CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 20
MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL CRAVEN COUNTY AROUND 230 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 3494 7682 3492 7678 3492 7676 3492 7673
3495 7671 3495 7669 3494 7666 3491 7667
3489 7663 3485 7675 3484 7686
$$
21The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 7:04 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 56 min | |
| Aug 15, 2:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret | 28 min |
| Aug 15, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 38 min | |
| Aug 15, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 44 min | |
| Aug 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 45 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.