Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2004, 12:47 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- Oct 13, 2004, 12:47 PM EDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 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), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KMHX 131647
TORMHX
NCC049-131730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1247 PM EDT WED OCT 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CRAVEN COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 130 PM EDT
* AT 1241 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF RIVER BEND...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRENTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RIVER BEND AROUND 100 PM EDT...
TRENT WOODS AROUND 105 PM EDT...
NEW BERN AROUND 115 PM EDT...
BRIDGETON AROUND 125 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 3507 7710 3506 7718 3508 7719 3511 7724
3527 7699 3522 7695 3515 7699 3512 7696
3508 7694 3506 7696 3508 7701 3501 7698
3495 7710
$$
21The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 12:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Jones | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 1:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Onslow | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 1:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 1:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Beaufort | 43 min |
| Oct 13, 1:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 56 min |
| Oct 13, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 44 min |
| Oct 13, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Pamlico | 29 min |
| Oct 13, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 25 min | |
| Oct 13, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Hyde | 44 min |
| Oct 13, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 45 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.