Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2004, 3:31 PM CST for 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 74 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, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 74 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Choctaw County, OK, Latimer County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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 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, 2:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 441 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KTSA 042131
SVRTUL
OKC023-077-091-121-127-042245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
329 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
LATIMER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
PITTSBURG COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 445 PM CST
* AT 329 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 50 MILES WEST OF SCIPIO TO 10 MILES WEST OF
ASHLAND TO 50 MILES WEST OF BOSWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* ALL LOCATIONS WITHIN THE WARNED COUNTIES HAVE POTENTIAL TO
EXPERIENCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH..
STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 3464 9583 3470 9611 3555 9586 3554 9537
3520 9544 3487 9505 3466 9507 3399 9520
3392 9591
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 7:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 8:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 55 min |
| Mar 4, 4:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers | 111 min |
| Mar 4, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 78 min |
| Mar 4, 4:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pushmataha | 39 min |
| Mar 4, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 33 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.