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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2004, 3:41 PM CDT for Creek County, Tulsa 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
- May 13, 2004, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 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), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 2528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KTSA 132041
TORTUL
OKC037-143-132115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
341 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
EASTERN CREEK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
SOUTHEASTERN TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 341 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
STRONG ROTATION 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOUNDS...MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MANNFORD...
BIXBY...GLENPOOL...BRISTOW...SLICK...DEPEW...MOUNDS...SHAMROCK...
KIEFER...DRUMRIGHT...OILTON...KELLYVILLE 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 3616 9629 3608 9630 3608 9603 3599 9603
3598 9576 3587 9585 3587 9619 3565 9619
3565 9662 3617 9663
$$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, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 43 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.