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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2004, 7:25 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 80 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2004, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 26, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2661 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 5:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 5:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 550 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 PRESENTLY WATCHING SPLITTING CELLS ALONG I-40 W OF OKC MOVING QUICKLY TO THE EAST. TRYING TO ANTICIPATE EFFECT ON OUR CWA. CELLS ENTERING MOST UNSTABLE PARTS OF AIR MASS AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL HIT GRADIENT OF INHIBITION EAST OF I-35. WILL LIKELY GET AN IDEA OF WHAT AFFECT THE INHIBITION WILL HAVE BEFORE GETTING TO CWA. FORECAST ID= 29 .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. MATHEWS
Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 26, 6:32 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 632 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 OKZ054>056-059-060-064-065-270400- CREEK OK-NOWATA OK-OKFUSKEE OK-OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK-TULSA OK- WASHINGTON OK- 623 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 302 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING 7 COUNTIES... CREEK...NOWATA...OKFUSKEE...OSAGE...PAWNEE...TULSA...WASHINGTON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 60 min |
| May 26, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| May 26, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 61 min |
| May 26, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| May 26, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 66 min |
| May 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 46 min |
| May 26, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 51 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.