Alert archive / Oklahoma / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2351
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 22, 2004, 1:08 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 2004, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2004, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Cherokee County, KS, Labette County, KS, Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Cooke County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Lamar County, TX
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 10:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Marshall, Ottawa, Republic and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 22, 12:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Clark, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 22, 8:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Garfield, Grady and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 22, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Coryell, Edwards, Gillespie and 11 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2004Every mesoscale discussion in 2004
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.