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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 2, 2004Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 5:01 PM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 2, 2004, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Franklin County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

099 
WUUS54 KTSA 022201
SVRTUL
ARC047-022245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
459 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 459 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS 
MOVING INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY.  THE MOST INTENSE CELL WAS 10 MILES 
WEST OF CHARLESTON.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CHARLESTON...
  BRANCH...DENNING AND ALTUS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS LINE OF STORMS.

WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH AND HAIL TO QUARTER SIZE CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE 
WARNED AREA. 

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND 
MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW

LAT...LON 3544 9410 3515 9408 3542 9366 3556 9407

$$

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 Jun 2, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA
351 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

DISC..
BUSY.  ATMOSPHERE OF 3000+ CAPE HAS EXPLODED
ALONG WEST / EAST BOUNDARY. NUMEROUS REPORTS
OF WIND DAMAGE..AND MINI SPIN-UPS ALONG GUST
FRONT LINES. ACTION DRIFTING SOUTHEAST. RAIN
POTENTIAL OF COUPLE INCHES IN LESS THAN HALF
HOUR ALSO A POSSIBILITY.  THUNDER FORMING SW
KANSAS / NORTH TEXAS MAY VISIT LATE TONIGHT.

MARGINAL POPS THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH MINOR
RIPPLES MOVING THROUGH IN NORTHWEST FLOW.

PRELIM NUMBERS:

TUL    65   81   63   84 /  50   20   10   20
FSM    65   79   62   84 /  60   40   20   20
MLC    66   80   62   83 /  60   30   20   20
BVO    58   80   57   83 /  30   10    5   20
FYV    60   74   55   79 /  50   30   20   20
BYV    59   74   56   78 /  50   20   10   20
MKO    64   79   62   83 /  50   30   20   20
MIO    60   80   58   82 /  40   10    5   20
F10    63   81   62   83 /  50   40   20   20
HHW    70   83   64   85 /  70   50   30   20

FORECAST ID= 21

.TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
OK...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
100 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-031000-
ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK-
CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK-
LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK-
OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK-
PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK-
WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR-
100 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS
MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...

A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO OSAGE AND PAWNEE
COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AT 1 PM. THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS
IS EXPECTED TO MAINTAIN ITS STRENGTH AND PERHAPS EVEN INTENSIFY
FURTHER AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST INTO A MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF OVER 70 MILES AN HOUR
ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE WILL BE COMMON WITH THESE
STORMS. THE MOST WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR SOUTHWEST OF A
PAWHUSKA TO TULSA TO FORT SMITH LINE.

FURTHER TO THE EAST AND NORTH...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON NEAR A FRONTAL BOUNDARY
EXTENDING FROM NEAR FAYETTEVILLE TO TULSA. A FEW OF THESE STORMS
WILL ALSO BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE AND WIND
GUSTS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR BEING THE MAIN THREATS.

THE WEATHER WILL QUIET DOWN CONSIDERABLY BY EARLY THIS EVENING AS
THE STORMS EXIT THE AREA TO THE SOUTH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL
DEVELOP IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS BY THIS EVENING.
THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN MAINLY TO THE SOUTH OF OUR AREA
OVERNIGHT BUT THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE THAT THEY COULD AFFECT FAR
SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA.

WARNING PROBABILITIES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN BE
FOUND IN THE CURRENT HAZARDS SECTION AT: WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA.
GIVEN PROBABILITIES REPRESENT THE POTENTIAL FOR A WARNING TO BE
ISSUED AT YOUR LOCATION.

SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED FROM NOW THROUGH EARLY THIS
EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN IN THE VICINITY...WITH A GENERAL
NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. OCCASIONAL
DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE THROUGH AND BRING SLIGHT CHANCES OF
THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND
GRAPHICAL INFORMATION

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:17 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
417 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0205 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LOST CITY               35.99N 95.14W
06/02/2004                   CHEROKEE           OK   AIRPLANE PILOT

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON HULBERT ROAD FROM LOST CITY. ROAD
            WAS BLOCKED. ALSO ROOF REPORTED OFF ONE HOUSE.

&&

GM

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:32 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
432 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0325 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 SSE HASKELL           35.75N 95.64W
06/02/2004  72 MPH           MUSKOGEE           OK   MESONET

&&

GM

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:36 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
436 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0404 PM     HAIL             3 N ROLAND              35.46N 94.51W
06/02/2004  1.25 INCH        SEQUOYAH           OK   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

GM

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:44 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
444 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0352 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 W CANADIAN            35.18N 95.74W
06/02/2004  70 MPH           PITTSBURG          OK   AMATEUR RADIO

            WIDESPREAD STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS ALONG/BEHIND OUTFLOW
            BOUNDARY IN THIS AREA.

&&

GM

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:47 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
447 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0404 PM     HAIL             SALLISAW                35.46N 94.79W
06/02/2004  1.00 INCH        SEQUOYAH           OK   AMATEUR RADIO

            HAIL COVERING GROUND.

&&

GM

Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:52 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
452 PM CDT WED JUN 02 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0327 PM     HAIL             SHADY POINT             35.13N 94.66W
06/02/2004  1.75 INCH        LE FLORE           OK   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

GM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	57 min
Jun 2, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Madison	61 min
Jun 2, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Washington	83 min
Jun 2, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll, Madison	93 min
Jun 2, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	82 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.