Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2004, 3:22 PM EDT for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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
- Aug 29, 2004, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hoke County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KRAH 291922
TORRAH
NCC093-291945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
322 PM EDT SUN AUG 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL HOKE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT
* AT 322 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO OVER SILVER CITY...OR ABOUT OVER RAEFORD...MOVING WEST AT
40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MCCAIN...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS 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. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND EXTERIOR WALLS AS FLYING DEBRIS
GENERATED BY TORNADIC WINDS CAN BE DEADLY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3494 7957 3498 7957 3502 7947 3504 7946
3507 7950 3508 7957 3512 7957 3516 7961
3507 7913 3491 7916 3490 7921
$$
04The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 12:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 22 min |
| Aug 29, 12:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 12:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Anson | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 36 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.