Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 2:27 PM EDT for Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2004, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scotland County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Silver Hill, NC | TREES AND POWER LINES REPORTED DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 121827 TORRAH NCC165-121900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 227 PM EDT THU AUG 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SCOTLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 227 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF OLD HUNDRED...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROCKINGHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SILVER HILL AROUND 245 PM... OAK HILL AROUND 255 PM... 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. 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 3494 7960 3479 7965 3487 7935 3504 7942 $$ DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Richmond | 39 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.