Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 52, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT for Nash County, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Oct 13, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Nash County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KRAH 132345 TORRAH NCC127-195-140015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 744 PM EDT WED OCT 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WILSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHERN NASH COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 744 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER BAILEY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILSON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LAMM...STRICKLAND CROSSROADS... WILSON... ELM CITY... 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN RALEIGH. LAT...LON 3589 7818 3571 7818 3568 7776 3591 7776 $$ WSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 6:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 19 min |
| Oct 13, 6:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 5:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 25 min |
| Oct 13, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 34 min |
| Oct 13, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 12 min |
| Oct 13, 6:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 18 min |
| Oct 13, 7:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 35 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.