Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2004, 6:13 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 17 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 27, 2004, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Moore County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 27, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 272213
TORRAH
NCC125-272230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
611 PM EDT MON SEP 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 611 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO OVER CARTHAGE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF SOUTHERN
PINES...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HIGHFALLS...
THIS STORM HAS CAUSED DAMAGE ACROSS SOUTHERN PINES AND NEAR
PINEHURST. PEOPLE EAST OF ROBBINS AND NORTH OF CARTHAGE NEED TO SEEK
SHELTER NOW.
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 MONDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3528 7956 3529 7957 3534 7957 3535 7959
3539 7959 3551 7962 3551 7939 3550 7937
3526 7935 3524 7956
$$
WSSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Moore | 43 min |
| Sep 27, 6:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 43 min |
| Sep 27, 7:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 37 min |
| Sep 27, 7:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Richmond | 34 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.