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Tornado Warning 74, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 10, 2004Cherokee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2004, 6:33 PM CST for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 57 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, 6:33 PM CST (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Nov 10, 2004, 7:30 PM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cherokee County, OK

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2004-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2004-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 253 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
292 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

113 
WFUS54 KTSA 110033
TORTSA
OKC021-110130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 631 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF HULBERT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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

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 3588 9533 3577 9514 3606 9489 3612 9504

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 10, 6:07 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee23 min
Nov 10, 6:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACreek58 min
Nov 10, 7:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAOkmulgee38 min
Nov 10, 7:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee62 min
Nov 10, 9:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer50 min
Nov 10, 10:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALeFlore58 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.