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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2004, 7:26 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 64 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, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cherokee County, OK, Muskogee County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 543 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 230026
TORTUL
OKC101-230130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
725 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 725 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 3
MILES NORTHWEST OF MUSKOGEE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE MEDIA
REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING
SITUATION...TAKE COVER NOW
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...PUMPKIN
CENTER...MUSKOGEE AND FORT GIBSON.
A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADO...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
VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY COMPLETELY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO - 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 3567 9513 3568 9552 3580 9552 3580 9541
3581 9539 3582 9513
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WFUS54 KTSA 230026 RRA
TORTUL
OKC021-230130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
725 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
CHEROKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 725 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF TAHLEQUAH...MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TAHLEQUAH...
ELDON AND SCRAPER.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS
LAT...LON 3587 9480 3585 9510 3593 9512 3601 9515
3610 9480
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 58 min |
| Apr 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Pittsburg | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, McIntosh, Pittsburg | 75 min |
| Apr 22, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 4:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 4 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 4 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 51 min |
| Apr 23, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 47 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.