Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 4, 2004, 4:42 PM CST for 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 78 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, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 78 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
252
WUUS54 KTSA 042242
SVRTUL
OKC001-021-079-135-050000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
440 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
SEQUOYAH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
ADAIR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
LE FLORE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 600 PM CST
* AT 440 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 30 MILES WEST OF VIAN TO 25 MILES WEST OF
FANSHAWE AND CONTINUING INTO SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY...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.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN
DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
LAT...LON 3495 9499 3529 9481 3552 9510 3580 9513
3608 9456 3549 9444 3483 9445 3452 9447
3451 9499
$$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, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 74 min |
| 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, 4:51 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.