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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC

October 13, 2004Pamlico County, North Carolina

NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2004, 1:24 PM EDT for Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2004, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pamlico County, NC

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KMHX 131724
TORMHX
NCC137-131800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
124 PM EDT WED OCT 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT
HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PAMLICO COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 118 PM EDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR      
  NEAR THE NEUSE RIVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OLYMPIA AROUND 135 PM EDT...
  SILVER HILL AROUND 200 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 3504 7689 3502 7694 3504 7693 3504 7696
      3509 7693 3515 7698 3523 7692 3525 7690
      3522 7685 3522 7680 3523 7664 3525 7662
      3523 7660

$$

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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, 1:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Onslow	37 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.