Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 28
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 17, 2004, 5:10 PM CST for 10 counties in Arkansas; 18 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2004, 5:10 PM CST (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2004, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Benton County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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.
Warnings issued inside it
36 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 5:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 39 min |
| Mar 17, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Mayes | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 40 min |
| Mar 17, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 6:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 41 min |
| Mar 17, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 43 min |
| Mar 17, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 7:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 43 min |
| Mar 17, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 24 min |
| Mar 17, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 37 min |
| Mar 17, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 51 min |
| Mar 17, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 8:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 36 min |
| Mar 17, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 60 min |
| Mar 17, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 43 min |
| Mar 17, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 53 min |
| Mar 17, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Mar 17, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 28 min |
| Mar 17, 9:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Scott | 48 min |
| Mar 17, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 42 min |
| Mar 17, 9:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okmulgee | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah | 58 min |
| Mar 17, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 65 min |
| Mar 17, 10:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Yell | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 10:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 39 min |
| Mar 17, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 39 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 3:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 20 more | 96 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.