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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Tulsa, OK

June 2, 2004Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 5:42 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 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, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Choctaw County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 1765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -187 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

155 
WUUS54 KTSA 022242
SVRTUL
OKC023-127-022330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHERN PUSHMATAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 541 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES EAST OF OLETA TO 8 MILES
  NORTHWEST   OF KENT...MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...HUGO...
  GOODLAND...SAWYER...FORT TOWSON...SOPER...MESSER...KENT...
  ANTLERS...RATTAN AND OLETA.

WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 80 MPH WILL OCCUR WITH THE LINE OF STORMS.  
LOCAL WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 100 MPH MAY OCCUR IN FAR EASTER CHOCTAW 
COUNTY.

IN ADDITION...BRIEF GUSTNADOES MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE LINE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION...PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD 
ALREADY HAVE MOVED TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.

LAT...LON 3428 9509 3425 9577 3393 9590 3395 9516

$$

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 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 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 42 minutes 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, 1 hour 25 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, 1 hour 10 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, 1 hour 6 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, 58 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, 55 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, 50 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, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	87 min
Jun 2, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	83 min
Jun 2, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	55 min
Jun 2, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	65 min
Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	60 min
Jun 2, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Okmulgee, Tulsa	53 min
Jun 2, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	60 min
Jun 2, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	72 min
Jun 2, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	46 min
Jun 2, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	76 min
Jun 2, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	48 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers, Wagoner	46 min
Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee, Okmulgee	51 min
Jun 2, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	46 min
Jun 2, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	61 min
Jun 2, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	72 min
Jun 2, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	26 min
Jun 2, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	69 min
Jun 2, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	38 min
Jun 2, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware, McIntosh, Muskogee	57 min
Jun 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Wagoner	33 min
Jun 2, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	29 min
Jun 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg, Sequoyah	65 min
Jun 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okfuskee	32 min
Jun 2, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Muskogee	27 min
Jun 2, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha and 1 more	82 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.