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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Tulsa, OK

October 29, 2004McIntosh County, Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 2004, 4:55 PM CDT for McIntosh County, Okfuskee County, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 35 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: Oct 29, 2004, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Oct 29, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties McIntosh County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 1002 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 292155
TORTUL
OKC091-107-111-292230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
454 PM CDT FRI OCT 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN OKMULGEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA
  SOUTHEAST OKFUSKEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
  MCINTOSH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 452 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6
  MILES EAST OF WELEETKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HENRYETTA...
  DEWAR...GRAYSON...HOFFMAN...STIDHAM...COUNCIL HILL...RENTIESVILLE
  AND CHECOTAH.

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 3540 9615 3528 9615 3539 9534 3557 9536
      3558 9570

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh	64 min
Oct 29, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Tulsa	46 min
Oct 29, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Nowata	44 min
Oct 29, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	49 min
Oct 29, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Rogers	62 min
Oct 29, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Mayes	62 min
Oct 29, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig	28 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.