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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Norman, OK

March 4, 2004Comanche County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 1:34 PM CST for Comanche County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 41 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: Mar 4, 2004, 1:34 PM CST (19:34 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2004, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Comanche County, OK

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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
Mar 4, 9:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 16 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KOUN 041934
TOROKC
OKC031-042015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
134 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 134 PM CST...A TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR 14 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FAXON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CACHE...FAXON...FORT SILL...LAKE
  LAWTONKA...LAWTON AND MEDICINE PARK

THIS TORNADO IS LIKELY OBSCURED BY RAIN AND MAY NOT BE VISIBLE.
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 9877 3441 9862 3466 9814 3482 9848

$$
ANDRA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 6:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	36 min
Mar 4, 10:19 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	3 hr
Mar 4, 10:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Noble	5 hr
Mar 4, 1:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Tillman	31 min
Mar 4, 1:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	41 min
Mar 4, 1:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Stephens	49 min
Mar 4, 2:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Grady	37 min
Mar 4, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Love, Murray	45 min
Mar 4, 2:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Garvin, Love, Murray	43 min
Mar 4, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain	41 min
Mar 4, 2:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Canadian, Grady	47 min
Mar 4, 2:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Johnston, Marshall, Pontotoc	47 min
Mar 4, 3:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cleveland, Pottawatomie	51 min
Mar 4, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	43 min
Mar 4, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes	49 min
Mar 4, 3:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble and 1 more	3 hr

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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.