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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Norman, OK

March 27, 2004Custer County, Oklahoma

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2004, 2:53 PM CST for Custer County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 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 27, 2004, 2:53 PM CST (20:53 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2004, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Custer County, OK

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 27, 12:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

707 
WFUS54 KOUN 272053
TOROKC
OKC039-272130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
251 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CUSTER COUNTY IN WESTERN OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 251 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM   
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BUTLER...MOVING  
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUTLER AND FOSS RESERVOIR

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 3559 9930 3551 9923 3568 9887 3580 9904

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	49 min
Mar 27, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis	45 min
Mar 27, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	40 min
Mar 27, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	45 min
Mar 27, 1:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	49 min
Mar 27, 1:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis	31 min
Mar 27, 1:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Dewey, Woodward	28 min
Mar 27, 1:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Woodward	31 min
Mar 27, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer, Roger Mills	44 min
Mar 27, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey	42 min
Mar 27, 1:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Washita	33 min
Mar 27, 2:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Woodward	32 min
Mar 27, 2:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Custer	48 min
Mar 27, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	30 min
Mar 27, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer	49 min
Mar 27, 3:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Coal, Hughes	49 min
Mar 27, 3:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Woods	31 min
Mar 27, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	41 min
Mar 27, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer, Dewey	30 min
Mar 27, 3:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa	51 min
Mar 27, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	45 min
Mar 27, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey	45 min
Mar 27, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Washita	43 min
Mar 27, 4:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Washita	29 min
Mar 27, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Kingfisher	46 min
Mar 27, 4:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer	26 min
Mar 27, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Custer	32 min
Mar 27, 5:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	46 min
Mar 27, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	45 min
Mar 27, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo	49 min
Mar 27, 5:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Major, Woods, Woodward	48 min
Mar 27, 5:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield	47 min

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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.