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Tornado Warning 69, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2004, 8:24 PM CDT for Benton County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 2, 2004, 8:24 PM CDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Benton County, AR
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 548 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 030124 TORTUL ARC007-030200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 823 PM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR BENTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 823 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED ROTATION AND STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5 MILES WEST OF DECATUR...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BENTONVILLE... GENTRY...SPRINGTOWN...HIGHFILL...CAVE SPRINGS AND DECATUR. 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 3640 9458 3630 9459 3616 9436 3638 9407 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 50 min |
| Jul 2, 11:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Benton, Madison | 4 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 1:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington | 6 hr |
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.