Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 2:06 PM EDT for Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 12, 2004, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Richmond County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 634 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KRAH 121806 TORRAH NCC153-121845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 205 PM EDT THU AUG 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN RICHMOND COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 205 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF DIGGS...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF CHERAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CORDOVA... EAST ROCKINGHAM... HAMLET...DOBBINS HEIGHTS... MASTON... HOFFMAN... IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3482 7994 3480 7969 3503 7945 3507 7957 $$ DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Scotland | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 2:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 116 min |
| Aug 12, 2:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 24 min |
| Aug 12, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 44 min |
| Aug 12, 4:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 108 min |
| Aug 12, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 42 min |
| Aug 12, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Franklin | 95 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.