Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2004, 12:33 PM EDT for Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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, 12:33 PM EDT (16:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2004, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Orange County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:34 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 081633
TORRAH
NCC135-081700-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1233 PM EDT WED SEP 8 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 100 PM EDT
* AT 1233 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF CARRBORO...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF
CHAPEL HILL...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHAPEL HILL...
ENO RIVER STATE PARK...HILLSBOROUGH...
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 3586 7902 3586 7918 3593 7918 3594 7917
3601 7917 3602 7916 3609 7916 3610 7915
3623 7913 3623 7896
$$
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, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Lee | 13 min |
| Sep 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Guilford | 3 hr |
| 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.