1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 6, 2:06 PM CST, 32 minutes earlier.
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1200 PM CDT WED OCT 6 2004
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-071200-
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION...
BOTH INSTABILITY AND DEEP LAYER SHEAR ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN
INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS THROUGH TONIGHT.
HOWEVER... NUMEROUS SHOWERS... ALONG WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS... WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND ESPECIALLY TONIGHT...
FIRST OVER WESTERN NORTH TEXAS AND THE WESTERN ONE-THIRD OF
OKLAHOMA... THEN SPREADING EASTWARD TOWARD MORNING ACROSS MOST OF
OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS. THIS EVOLUTION IS EXPECTED AS ANOTHER
COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPS OVER THE PANHANDLES OF
OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS THIS EVENING... AND THEN MOVES EAST TONIGHT. SOME
OF THE RAINFALL TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS...COULD BE LOCALLY HEAVY.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT THURSDAY OCT 7.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...100 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...10 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
CHANCES FOR ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH THIS WEATHER
SYSTEM ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE SLOWLY FROM WEST TO EAST BEGINNING
THURSDAY NIGHT... WITH ANY SHOWERS OR WEAK THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING
INCREASINGLY SHORT LIVED AND ISOLATED BY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
THURSDAY...OCTOBER 7.
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</html>The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:38 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Several people observed and photographed this tornado moving northeast across open country. No damage was reported. This was the second tornado produced by a mini-supercell. The same mini-supercell had produced a tornado near Burkburnett, Texas earlier.
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, October 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: 5427652.