Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 44, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2004, 11:08 PM EDT for Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was in force for 22 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, 11:08 PM EDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2004, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Forsyth County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KRAH 280308 TORRAH NCC067-280330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1108 PM EDT MON SEP 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN FORSYTH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT * AT 1108 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER KERNERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF BELEWS CREEK...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DENNIS... WALKERTON... IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3606 8016 3613 7995 3656 8014 3647 8040 $$ 04
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 11:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford | 4 hr |
| Sep 28, 12:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:56 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 49 min |
| Sep 28, 2:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Sep 28, 3:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 4:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 36 min |
| Sep 28, 4:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 5:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Randolph | 114 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004
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.