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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Norman, OK

May 29, 2004Canadian County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 8:16 PM CDT for Canadian County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 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 29, 2004, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Canadian County, OK

The radar

The Norman radar (KTLX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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 29, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 2169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

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

198 
WFUS54 KOUN 300116
TOROKC
OKC017-300200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
815 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CANADIAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 815 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS OBSERVED A TORNADO
  NEAR CONCHO APPROACHING THE NORTHERN PARTS OF EL RENO...MOVING     
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS IS A LARGE AND DANGEROUS TORNADO THAT IS FREQUENTLY HIDDEN BY 
RAIN.  TAKE SHELTER NOW IF YOU LIVE IN CANADIAN COUNTY NORTH OF 
INTERSTATE 40.

IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO THREAT... THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS
DAMAGING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS OR LARGER.

LAT...LON 3569 9804 3560 9804 3553 9767 3572 9769

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian	30 min
May 29, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher	41 min
May 29, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Canadian	31 min
May 29, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan	49 min
May 29, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	33 min
May 29, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma	48 min
May 29, 8:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	24 min
May 29, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Canadian	17 min
May 29, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Logan, Oklahoma	47 min
May 29, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	51 min
May 29, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan	48 min
May 29, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Oklahoma	30 min
May 29, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Lincoln	48 min
May 29, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Payne	44 min
May 30, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Hughes	29 min
May 30, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Atoka, Bryan	46 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.