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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 8:07 PM CDT for Osage County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 53 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 26, 2004, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Osage County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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 26, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 2661 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
462 WFUS54 KTSA 270107 TORTUL OKC113-270200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 804 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 804 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 23 MILES WEST OF BURBANK...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A SECONDARY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 23 MILES WEST OF HOMINY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION...TAKE COVER NOW * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...PAWHUSKA... SHIDLER...AVANT...WYNONA...FAIRFAX...BARNSDALL...BURBANK...OKESA... PEARSONIA...BIGHEART...FORAKER...HULAH...HOMINY. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THESE DANGEROUS STORMS...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 3681 9726 3663 9727 3636 9601 3695 9601 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 60 min |
| May 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 80 min |
| May 26, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 61 min |
| May 26, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| May 26, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 66 min |
| May 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 46 min |
| May 26, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 51 min |
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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.