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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Norman, OK

May 24, 2004Tillman County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 7:43 PM CDT for Tillman County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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: May 24, 2004, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tillman County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2380 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KOUN 250043
TOROKC
OKC141-250130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
743 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TILLMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 743 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MANITOU...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE MANITOU

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANYTIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES. IF POSSIBLE... MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER.
OTHERWISE... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3454 9897 3449 9904 3437 9887 3451 9873

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Caddo	44 min
May 24, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Tillman	35 min
May 24, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kiowa	48 min
May 24, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	58 min
May 24, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Grady	52 min
May 24, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	37 min
May 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	30 min
May 24, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	38 min
May 24, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	37 min
May 24, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Tillman	31 min
May 24, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton	48 min
May 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	41 min
May 24, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	42 min
May 24, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens	52 min
May 24, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	48 min
May 24, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	32 min
May 24, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Washita	45 min
May 24, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	41 min
May 24, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	46 min
May 24, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Grady	44 min
May 25, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Oklahoma	46 min
May 25, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	27 min
May 25, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	44 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.