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Tornado Warning 78, NWS Tulsa, OK

November 26, 2004Sebastian County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this tornado warning at Nov 26, 2004, 11:29 PM CST for Sebastian County, Arkansas. It was in force for 31 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 26, 2004, 11:29 PM CST (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Nov 27, 2004, 12:00 AM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sebastian County, AR

The radar

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 2004-11-27Temperature 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 2004-11-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 404 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
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
404 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
500 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.

000 
WFUS54 KTSA 270529
TORTSA
ARC131-270600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1129 PM CST FRI NOV 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SEBASTIAN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST

* AT 1126 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DANGEROUS
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL ROTATION...INDICATING A
  TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND OR COULD FORM AT ANY TIME. 
  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HACKETT...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BONANZA...
  EXCELSIOR...JENNY LIND...GREENWOOD...BARLING...BURNVILLE...LAVACA
  AND BLOOMER.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS - TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A
SAFE PLACE

LAT...LON 3525 9445 3510 9445 3522 9408 3545 9408

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 26, 11:00 PM CSTTornado WarningTSASebastian30 min
Nov 26, 11:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAFranklin47 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.