Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 513
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2004, 4:25 PM EDT for 25 counties in North Carolina; Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2004, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Lenoir | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 8:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Craven, Pamlico | 46 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 12:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 57 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chatham, Chowan and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden and 51 more | 87 min |
| Jun 23, 6:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland and 27 more | 90 min |
| Jun 23, 5:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Jasper | 93 min |
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.