Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2004, 11:47 AM EDT for Lee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 13 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
- Sep 8, 2004, 11:47 AM EDT (15:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2004, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lee County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 6:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 835 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KRAH 081547
TORRAH
NCC105-081600-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1146 AM EDT WED SEP 8 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LEE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL NOON EDT
* AT 1146 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF SANFORD...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROSSER...NORTH VIEW...
BLACKNET...
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 700 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 200 PM EDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3541 7928 3541 7928 3554 7925 3556 7923
3555 7921 3562 7914 3560 7908 3553 7902
3545 7904 3540 7909 3538 7911
$$
WSSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 4:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Hoke | 36 min |
| Sep 8, 5:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Hoke | 88 min |
| Sep 8, 7:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 7:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 8:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 8:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Richmond | 15 min |
| Sep 8, 10:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 11:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 11:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee, Moore | 32 min |
| Sep 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange | 27 min |
| Sep 8, 1:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 24 min |
| Sep 8, 1:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange, Person | 37 min |
| Sep 8, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 29 min |
| Sep 8, 3:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Hoke | 91 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.