Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT for Beaufort County, Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 17, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2004, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Beaufort County, NC, Craven County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMHX 180015
TORMHX
NCC013-049-180100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
815 PM EDT FRI SEP 17 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BEAUFORT COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT
* AT 811 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
VANCEBORO...OR 16 MILES NORTH OF NEW BERN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
CHOCOWINITY AROUND 830 PM EDT...
RIVER ROAD AROUND 835 PM EDT...
PINETOWN AROUND 845 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 3546 7693 3554 7708 3544 7697 3544 7694
3543 7698 3541 7697 3526 7712 3536 7729
3537 7729 3535 7724 3552 7717 3555 7709
3559 7711 3568 7704 3565 7697 3570 7684
3569 7670
$$
11The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Martin | 30 min |
| Sep 17, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Jones | 57 min |
| Sep 17, 8:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 2 hr | |
| Sep 17, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 47 min | |
| Sep 17, 11:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 86 min | |
| Sep 17, 11:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 86 min | |
| Sep 17, 11:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 86 min | |
| Sep 18, 12:27 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 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.