2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 4:50 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 550 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 PRESENTLY WATCHING SPLITTING CELLS ALONG I-40 W OF OKC MOVING QUICKLY TO THE EAST. TRYING TO ANTICIPATE EFFECT ON OUR CWA. CELLS ENTERING MOST UNSTABLE PARTS OF AIR MASS AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL HIT GRADIENT OF INHIBITION EAST OF I-35. WILL LIKELY GET AN IDEA OF WHAT AFFECT THE INHIBITION WILL HAVE BEFORE GETTING TO CWA. FORECAST ID= 29 .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. MATHEWS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 730 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-270300- ADAIR OK-BENTON AR-CARROLL AR-CHEROKEE OK-CHOCTAW OK-CRAIG OK- CRAWFORD AR-CREEK OK-DELAWARE OK-FRANKLIN AR-HASKELL OK-LATIMER OK- LE FLORE OK-MADISON AR-MAYES OK-MCINTOSH OK-MUSKOGEE OK-NOWATA OK- OKFUSKEE OK-OKMULGEE OK-OSAGE OK-OTTAWA OK-PAWNEE OK-PITTSBURG OK- PUSHMATAHA OK-ROGERS OK-SEBASTIAN AR-SEQUOYAH OK-TULSA OK-WAGONER OK- WASHINGTON OK-WASHINGTON AR- 730 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ...SUPERCELL THREAT IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS EVENING... A SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO PAWNEE COUNTY THIS EVENING. THERE WILL BE A TORNADO THREAT WITH THE STORM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THE CELL. OTHER SEVERE STORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF OSAGE COUNTY THIS EVENING AS WELL. A STRONG CAP EXISTS ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION AND THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED DISSIPATE BY 10PM AS SURFACE TEMPERATURES COOL AFTER SUNSET. HOWEVER...THE STORMS MAY LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO REACH THE HIGHWAY 75 CORRIDOR. OVERNIGHT OTHER STORMS MAY DEVELOP IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA AS LOW-LEVEL WINDS INCREASE. ANY STORMS THAT OCCUR OVERNIGHT WILL HAVE A WIND AND HAIL THREAT GIVEN THE INSTABILITY AND WIND PROFILES. SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE ACTIVE IN THE CURRENT WATCHES AND WARNINGS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH MEMORIAL DAY IN A RATHER ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN. SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL MAY DEVELOP THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY AS A POTENT BUNDLE OF ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY FROM THE SOUTHWEST MOVES THROUGH OUR REGION. WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA CONTAINS ADDITIONAL TABULAR AND GRAPHICAL INFORMATION
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 632 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 OKZ054>056-059-060-064-065-270400- CREEK OK-NOWATA OK-OKFUSKEE OK-OSAGE OK-PAWNEE OK-TULSA OK- WASHINGTON OK- 623 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 302 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING 7 COUNTIES... CREEK...NOWATA...OKFUSKEE...OSAGE...PAWNEE...TULSA...WASHINGTON.
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:39 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A F0 tornado moved into Pawnee County from Noble County. Most of the path of the tornado in Pawnee County was over Sooner Lake. Just before the tornado dissipated it reached land and damaged a few trees.
A F1 tornado occurred in rural Osage county to the north northeast of Prue. Numerous half foot in diameter Oak limbs were broken. A few whole trees and power poles were also downed. Two houses in the path had slight damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oklahoma, 2004Warnings in Oklahoma, May 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5398894, 5398895.