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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 10, 2004Muskogee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2004, 6:07 PM CST for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 23 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: Nov 10, 2004, 6:07 PM CST (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2004, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Tulsa, OK
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Muskogee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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
Nov 10, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

456 
WFUS54 KTSA 110007
TORTSA
OKC101-110030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
607 PM CST WED NOV 10 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MUSKOGEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 605 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8
  MILES SOUTH OF MUSKOGEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MUSKOGEE.

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 3565 9551 3561 9536 3573 9513 3582 9535

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Creek	58 min
Nov 10, 6:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	57 min
Nov 10, 7:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Okmulgee	38 min
Nov 10, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Muskogee	62 min
Nov 10, 9:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	50 min
Nov 10, 10:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	58 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.