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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tulsa, OK

March 4, 2004Madison County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 6:37 PM CST for Madison County, Arkansas. It was in force for 38 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, 6:37 PM CST (00:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2004, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, AR

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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -341 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

091 
WFUS54 KTSA 050037
TORTUL
ARC087-050115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
637 PM CST THU MAR 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CST

* AT 637 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PETTIGREW...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 50 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
  TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...PETTIGREW...
  KINGSTON AND BOSTON.

THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MADISON 
COUNTY.

STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED ACROSS CENTRAL AND 
NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE

LAT...LON 3577 9372 3577 9354 3597 9344 3613 9347

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 6:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford	29 min
Mar 4, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Carroll	66 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.