Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2004, 5:26 PM CDT for Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 34 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
- Apr 22, 2004, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mayes County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
234
WFUS54 KTSA 222226
TORTUL
OKC097-222300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
526 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 526 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LARGE TORNADO
3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOCUST GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. STORM
SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND THIS IS A LIFE
THREATENING SITUATION...TAKE COVER NOW
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...LOCUST GROVE
AND ROSE.
THIS IS A LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO PEOPLE NEAR ITS PATH SHOULD
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 ACT QUICKLY
- YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT
LAT...LON 3626 9502 3617 9502 3617 9511 3609 9511
3609 9523 3623 9526 3631 9506
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 81 min |
| Apr 21, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 47 min |
| Apr 21, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 63 min |
| Apr 21, 8:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Apr 21, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 62 min |
| Apr 21, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 43 min |
| Apr 21, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 67 min |
| Apr 21, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore, Okfuskee | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 52 min |
| Apr 21, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 59 min |
| Apr 21, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 59 min |
| Apr 21, 11:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 66 min |
| Apr 21, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 71 min |
| Apr 21, 11:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 12:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 42 min |
| Apr 22, 12:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 47 min |
| Apr 22, 12:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Muskogee | 76 min |
| Apr 22, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 62 min |
| Apr 22, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa, Washington | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 4 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Wagoner | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 76 min |
| Apr 22, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 70 min |
| Apr 22, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 37 min |
| Apr 22, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 56 min |
| Apr 22, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Delaware | 72 min |
| Apr 22, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Tulsa | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 80 min |
| Apr 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 54 min |
| Apr 22, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 79 min |
| Apr 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Adair | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 54 min |
| Apr 22, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 95 min |
| Apr 22, 6:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner | 4 hr |
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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.