Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 50, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2004, 3:32 PM CDT for Creek County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 43 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
- May 13, 2004, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Creek County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
168 WFUS54 KTSA 132032 TORTUL OKC037-143-132115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 332 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 332 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES WEST OF KIEFER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BIXBY... JENKS...GLENPOOL...BROKEN ARROW...MOUNDS...KIEFER AND SAPULPA. 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 3601 9614 3586 9613 3587 9577 3606 9577 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 61 min |
| May 13, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 65 min |
| May 13, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 59 min |
| May 13, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner | 40 min |
| May 13, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 39 min |
| May 13, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 52 min |
| May 13, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 47 min |
| May 13, 2:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Delaware | 4 hr |
| May 13, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 41 min |
| May 13, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 19 min |
| May 13, 3:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 4 hr |
| May 13, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 38 min |
| May 13, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 44 min |
| May 13, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 34 min |
| May 13, 4:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 4 hr |
| May 13, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 50 min |
| May 13, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 40 min |
| May 13, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 48 min |
| May 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| May 13, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 53 min |
| May 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 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.