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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Tulsa, OK

July 9, 2004Muskogee County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2004, 1:38 PM CDT for Muskogee County, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 67 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
Jul 9, 2004, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2004, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Muskogee County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2004-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 329 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2004-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
329 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1402 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 091838
SVRTUL
OKC101-135-091945-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
138 PM CDT FRI JUL 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 138 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
  A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRAGGS TO 4 MILES SOUTH
  OF KEEFETON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...KEEFETON...
  SALLISAW...GANS...MULDROW...ROLAND...VIAN...GORE...BRUSHY...
  SHORT...MARBLE CITY...BRIARTOWN...PORUM...WARNER...OKTAHA...BRAGGS
  AND WEBBERS FALLS.

WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS 
AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3531 9451 3538 9488 3548 9504 3528 9524
          3532 9534 3556 9534 3556 9550 3582 9516
          3565 9513 3564 9447

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 12:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWagoner50 min
Jul 9, 12:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee56 min
Jul 9, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACherokee59 min
Jul 9, 1:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh43 min
Jul 9, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAHaskell64 min
Jul 9, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair52 min
Jul 9, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah79 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.