Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 45, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2004, 4:16 PM EDT for Hyde County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hyde County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 132016 TORMHX NCC095-132100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 416 PM EDT WED OCT 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MAINLAND HYDE COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 411 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW HOLLAND...OR 8 MILES SOUTH OF SWANQUARTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEW HOLLAND AROUND 435 PM EDT... GULL ROCK AROUND 440 PM EDT... LAKE LANDING AROUND 450 PM EDT... ENGELHARD AROUND 455 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 3529 7643 3517 7626 3552 7582 3563 7605 $$ 21
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, 1:24 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, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 45 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.