Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2004, 1:08 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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, 1:08 PM EDT (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2004, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Onslow County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 44 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 131708
TORMHX
NCC133-131745-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
108 PM EDT WED OCT 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 145 PM EDT
* AT 102 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
JACKSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
DEPPE AROUND 120 PM EDT...
BELGRADE AROUND 125 PM EDT...
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
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 3471 7740 3473 7739 3472 7742 3481 7754
3493 7742 3491 7737 3493 7734 3493 7731
3492 7727 3488 7722 3483 7721 3469 7737
$$The 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, 12:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven | 43 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.