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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 1:12 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 33 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, 1:12 PM CDT (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McIntosh County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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 30, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
056
WFUS54 KTSA 301812
TORTUL
OKC091-301845-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
112 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
EASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 145 PM CDT
* AT 112 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES EAST OF STIDHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...EUFAULA...
CHECOTAH...STIDHAM AND RENTIESVILLE.
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
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO THREAT...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT
LINE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW
LAT...LON 3556 9546 3556 9535 3538 9535 3530 9553
3526 9564 3541 9575
$$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, 12:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 53 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, 1:16 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 |
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.