2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 17, 1:30 PM EST, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 230 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004 .SHORT TERM...PRIMARY CONCERN WILL BE CONVECTION TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. CONVECTION LIFTING NE OUT OF FAR SE NC ATTM APPEARS TO BE IN ASSOC WITH LEFT EXIT RGN OF JET STREAK WORKING E ACROSS THE AREA. THIS IS THE BEST UPPER DIV ASCD WITH THIS JET STREAK SHOULD STAY SOUTH OF THE CWA...BUT WITH TROF DIGGING TO THE WEST AND MID LVL FLOW BECOMING MORE SWRLY EXPECT SOME OF THIS CONVECTION TO EDGE INTO THE CWA THIS EVNG. ANOTHER JET STREAK AND ASCD VORT LOBE SHOULD LIFT MORE NERLY INTO THE CWA LATER THIS EVNG FROM AL/GA VCNTY. THIS LIKELY TO BE THE MAIN CAUSE OF PCPN OUR RGN. ONLY PROBLEM MAY BE LOCATION. IF THIS IS TOO FAR E BULK OF CWA WILL MISS GENERAL PCPN IN FAVOR OF MORE SCATTERED VARIETY. FOR NOW WILL FAVOR A TRACK JUST INLAND FROM THE COAST AND PUT ENTIRE CWA UNDER LIKELY POPS. BEST LIFT ASCD WITH THIRD JET STREAK WELL TO THE NORTH AND GIVEN TIME OF PASSAGE LOW LVL INSTABILITY WILL NOT BE AS EXTREME. THINK POSSIBILITY OF SVR WX IS LIMITED LATER TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH MAY SEE SOME ISOLD SVR CELLS EARLY THIS EVENING. WILL PLAY UP POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT AND EARLY SUN AS WELL. VORT LOBE LIFTS NE SUN MRNG. SHOULD SEE SOME LINGERING ACTIVITY INTO THE MRNG HOURS. GFS IS SLOWER THAN ETA. FOR NOW PREFER SLIGHTLY FASTER ETA GIVEN WHAT APPEARS TO BE BETTER TIMING OF ONGOING PCPN. CLOUDS SUNDAY WILL LIKELY CUT HIGH TEMPS A BIT AS WELL. BOTH MODELS INDICATE SOME DRYING THE MID LVLS BY MON INTO TUE...BUT NO REAL LOSS OF MSTR IN THE LOW LVLS. ALSO SHOWING A COUPLE OF VORT LOBES ROTATING THROUGH THE BASE OF THE LONG WAVE TROF THAT STAYS WEST OF US. WITH THIS IN MIND WILL MAINTAIN AT LEAST SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THROUGH TUES. && .LONG TERM...PATTERN BEGINS TO SHIFT BY LATE WED AS PERSISTENT EAST COAST TROF FINALLY SHIFTS EAST AND BEGINS TO DEAMPLIFY. EXTENDED PORTION OF GFS AND ENSEMBLES MAINTAIN LOW POPS FOR WED AND THURS THEN RAMP UP POPS AGAIN BY FRI WITH VORT LOBE MOVING THROUGH WNW FLOW. NOT THE BEST FLOW DIRECTION FOR US SO WILL ONLY MENTION LOW CHANCE AT THAT POINT. BY SAT PATTERN SHIFTS AGAIN WITH ANOTHER JET STREAK DIVING INTO THE TN VLY AND DIGGING TROF ONCE MORE. THIS MAY LEAD TO SCATTERED CONVECTION AS WELL SO WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS IN FOR SAT ALSO. && .AVIATION...LWRG CLDS THRU THE AFTN WI APPCHG SYS. MVFR CONDS TNGT WI PCPN. IMPRVG CONDS AFT SR. && .MARINE...MDLS COMING CLOSER TGTHR ON TRACK OF SFC LO...ALTHO THR ARE SUM DIFFERENCES. SLY LO LVL FLO AS SFC LO SLOWLY TRACKS NE TNGT INTO MON. WI CLOSER APPCH OF SFC LO...BLV GRAD WONT BE TITE ENUF FOR SCA CRIT WNDS. HWVR WI SLY FETCH...CANT ARGUE AGNST SEAS RCHG 6 FT OR MR IN SRN WTRS LT SUN INTO SUN NGT. MDLS AGREE IN KPG FNT OVR CSTL PLAINS FOR NXT FEW DAZ. ETA SEEMS MR REALISTIC KPG WV ON FNT S OF AREA. THIS WL GV US SW WNDS OVR THE WTRS AND MUCH OF THE CWA THRU THE FP. LCTN OF FNT WL DETERMINE WHAT THE WNDS WL BE OVR THE WRN THRD OF CWA. WL MOST LIKELY GO WI SW WND OVR ENTIRE CWA THRU THE WORK WK. && .MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && MLF/CGG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 340 AM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-180800- BEAUFORT NC-CARTERET NC-CRAVEN NC-DUPLIN NC-GREENE NC-JONES NC- LENOIR NC-MAINLAND DARE NC-MAINLAND HYDE NC-MARTIN NC-ONSLOW NC- OUTER BANKS DARE NC-OUTER BANKS HYDE NC-PAMLICO NC-PITT NC- TYRRELL NC-WASHINGTON NC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATLANTIC BEACH...BAYBORO...BEAUFORT... BELHAVEN...BEULAVILLE...BUXTON...CEDAR ISLAND...COLUMBIA...DUCK... EMERALD ISLE...ENGELHARD...FRISCO...GREENVILLE...HARKERS ISLAND... HATTERAS VILLAGE...HAVELOCK...JACKSONVILLE...KENANSVILLE... KILL DEVIL HILLS...KINSTON...KITTY HAWK...LA GRANGE...MANNS HARBOR... MANTEO...MOREHEAD CITY...NAGS HEAD...NEW BERN... NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH...OCRACOKE...ORIENTAL...PLYMOUTH...SNOW HILL... SWANQUARTER...SWANSBORO...TRENTON...WALLACE...WARSAW... WASHINGTON AND WILLIAMSTON 340 AM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE REGION THIS EVENING AND PRODUCE SOME STRONG AND EVEN LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS. ANY SEVERE STORM ALSO HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SOME LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS PRIMARILY ALONG THE SEABREEZE FRONT. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DO NOT LOOK POSSIBLE WITH THIS ACTIVITY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SJ
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 16 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:18 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Waterspout moved onshore partially removing a roof.
Tornado moved across Otway damaging several homes with many trees down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5413214, 5413215.