Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2004, 10:44 AM EDT for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 1, 2004, 10:44 AM EDT (14:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2004, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 1511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 011444 TORMHX NCC031-011530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1041 AM EDT WED SEP 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1130 AM EDT * AT 1040 AM EDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT NEAR BOGUE INLET...CAPABLE OF MOVING ONSHORE AS A TORNADO NEAR CEDAR POINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CEDAR POINT AROUND 1050 AM EDT... CAPE CARTERET AROUND 1100 AM EDT... BOGUE AROUND 1105 AM EDT... BROAD CREEK AROUND 1120 AM EDT... OTHER LOCATIONS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EMERALD ISLE AND PELETIER. 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 3469 7727 3454 7714 3469 7687 3484 7705 $$ 17
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 10:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 62 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.