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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 26, 2004Osage County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 8:52 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, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2004, 9:45 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 Tulsa radar (KINX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

052 
WFUS54 KTSA 270152
TORTUL
OKC113-270245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
850 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  OSAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 850 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO       
  OVER FAIRFAX. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS  
  STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND COULD     
  PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. 

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...AVANT...
  WYNONA...FAIRFAX...BARNSDALL AND BURBANK.

IF YOU ARE IN OR 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

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - 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 3671 9677 3653 9682 3634 9606 3658 9598

$$

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, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	53 min
May 26, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pawnee	61 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

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.