Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 72, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 2004, 7:08 PM CDT for Delaware County, Mayes County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 37 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, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KTSA 300008 TORTUL OKC041-097-300045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 708 PM CDT FRI OCT 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA EASTERN MAYES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 704 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF SPAVINAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SPAVINAW... LANGLEY...DISNEY...CHLOETA...JAY...GROVE AND MAYSVILLE. IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE TAKE COVER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA. LAT...LON 3646 9516 3634 9518 3640 9460 3668 9463 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 39 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.