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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Tulsa, OK

May 30, 2004Tulsa County, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 12:52 AM CDT for Tulsa County, Wagoner 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 30, 2004, 12:52 AM CDT (05:52 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 29, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 3494 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 402 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 7.0
Supercell composite: 22.4

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The text

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

326 
WFUS54 KTSA 300552
TORTUL
OKC143-145-300645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1251 AM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TULSA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  WAGONER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 145 AM CDT

* AT 1251 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 3
  MILES WEST OF BIXBY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS
  REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING
  SITUATION...TAKE COVER NOW

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...TULSA...
  BIXBY...JENKS...GLENPOOL...BROKEN ARROW...STONEBLUFF...COWETA AND
  ONETA.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 

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

LAT...LON 3616 9607 3585 9599 3589 9542 3616 9551

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	63 min
May 29, 11:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek	60 min
May 30, 12:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Creek, Tulsa	52 min
May 30, 1:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes, Rogers	57 min
May 30, 1:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Wagoner	46 min
May 30, 2:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee, Delaware	71 min
May 30, 2:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Mayes	32 min
May 30, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Delaware	80 min
May 30, 12:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	26 min
May 30, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	24 min
May 30, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh	58 min
May 30, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	63 min
May 30, 1:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh	33 min
May 30, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	59 min
May 30, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee	49 min
May 30, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	62 min
May 30, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Cherokee	78 min
May 30, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair	74 min
May 30, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	71 min
May 30, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	59 min
May 30, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	81 min
May 30, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	78 min
May 30, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	70 min
May 30, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	89 min
May 30, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sequoyah	81 min
May 30, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	78 min
May 30, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell	47 min
May 30, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	61 min
May 30, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	56 min
May 30, 4:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	LeFlore	4 hr
May 30, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	57 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.