Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2005, 10:34 AM EST for Carteret County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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
- Apr 2, 2005, 10:34 AM EST (15:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2005, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carteret County, NC
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:36 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KMHX 021534 TORMHX NCC031-021600- /O.NEW.KMHX.TO.W.0003.050402T1534Z-050402T1600Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1034 AM EST SAT APR 2 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CARTERET COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1100 AM EST * AT 1031 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CAPE LOOKOUT...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF HARKERS ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HARKERS ISLAND AROUND 1040 AM EST... SMYRNA AROUND 1045 AM EST... DAVIS AROUND 1050 AM EST... STACY AROUND 1055 AM EST... SEA LEVEL AROUND 1100 AM EST... OTHER LOCATIONS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO STRAITS...CEDAR ISLAND AND ATLANTIC. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER 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. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-800-889-6889...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3453 7668 3445 7648 3499 7616 3508 7641 $$ 8
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KMHX 021548 SVSMHX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1048 AM EST SAT APR 2 2005 NCC031-021600- /O.CON.KMHX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050402T1600Z/ CARTERET NC- 1048 AM EST SAT APR 2 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 AM EST FOR CARTERET COUNTY... AT 1044 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HARKERS ISLAND... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HARKERS ISLAND AROUND 1046 AM EST... SMYRNA AROUND 1048 AM EST... DAVIS AROUND 1050 AM EST... STACY AROUND 1055 AM EST... SEA LEVEL AROUND 1100 AM EST... OTHER LOCATIONS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CAPE LOOKOUT...STRAITS...CEDAR ISLAND AND ATLANTIC. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-800-889-6889...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3453 7668 3445 7648 3499 7616 3508 7641 $$ 8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 11:36 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | MHX | 54 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.