4 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 9:20 AM EST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1020 AM EDT FRI JUN 4 2004 .SHORT TERM...SFC BNDRY EXTENDS FROM NEAR HSE TO RDU. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW TSRA ARE SPREADING N ACRS RGN THIS MORN AHEAD OF UPR LOW THATS APPROACHING MTNS. WITH BNDRY ACRS RGN AND PLENTY OF MOISTURE IN PLACE SHLD SEE GOOD DEAL OF PRECIP AS EXPECT GOOD FORCING AHEAD OF UPR LOW. WL MONITOR RDR TRENDS BUT MAY BE ABLE TO LOWER POPS A BIT SRN TIER WHERE CVRG MAY BE MORE SCT. CLDS SHLD LIMIT HEATING AND INSTAB HOWEVER APPEARS SRN TIER WL SEE SOME SUN WHICH MAY LEAD TO SOME SEVERE. HIGHER HELICITY IS ALONG AND N OF BNDRY SO WL HAVE TO WATCH FOR ROTATION WITH CELLS IN THIS REGION. .MARINE...WL CONT TOWARD ETA SOLUTION. WL INCRS WINDS A BIT THIS AFTN NRN TIER AS ALREADY 15 TO 20 N OF THE BNDRY. WL KEEP SCA POSS/EXPECTED HEADLINE AS BEST GRDNT LOOKS LATER TONIGHT. .MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. && RF
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 401 AM EDT FRI JUN 4 2004 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-050800- 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 401 AM EDT FRI JUN 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BE THE TRIGGERING MECHANISM FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE DAY AND CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ANOTHER HAZARD FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OCCASIONAL HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WHEN DAYTIME HEATING IS AT ITS PEAK AND THE SEA BREEZE HAS DEVELOPED. ALTHOUGH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE...SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:07 UTC.
4 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Brief tornado touchdown with damage to power lines near Belvoir Crossroads.
Brief tornado touchdown with damage to power lines.
Brief tornado touchdown near intersection of Highway 171 and Piney Grove Church Road.
Highway 17 and Prison Camp Road reported flooded.
Roof was blown off of a hog house.
Brief tornado touchdown at a marina on Dewey Pier Road caused damage to twelve boats. One man was critically injured when his boat was flipped.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 2004Warnings in North Carolina, June 2004
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: 5404913, 5404914, 5404915, 5404916, 5404917, 5404918, 5404919.