Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 45, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 2004, 2:56 AM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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 28, 2004, 2:56 AM EDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2004, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cumberland County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 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, 9:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 280656
TORRAH
NCC051-280745-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
255 AM EDT TUE SEP 28 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 345 AM EDT
* AT 255 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF CYPRESS LAKES...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF
FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
CYPRESS LAKES AROUND 305 AM...
GRAYS CREEK AND HOPE MILLS AROUND 310 AM...
FAYETTEVILLE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AROUND 315 AM...
FAYETTEVILLE AND VANDER AROUND 320 AM...
EASTOVER AROUND 325 AM...
SLOCUMB AROUND 335 AM...
TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO
SEE. TAKE COVER NOW IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
LAT...LON 3488 7892 3493 7900 3521 7897 3522 7889
3525 7884 3526 7871 3525 7868 3485 7877
3483 7891
$$
04The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 11:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 22 min |
| 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, 2:59 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
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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.