Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 337
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2004, 4:50 PM EDT for 15 counties in North Carolina; 11 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2004, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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.
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Duplin | 49 min |
| May 30, 6:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Pender | 28 min |
| May 30, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marion | 49 min |
| May 30, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 44 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 5:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 19 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.