1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 6, 9:44 AM CST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1044 AM CDT WED OCT 6 2004 AREA RADARS SHOW MCV CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS WESTERN OK. SHWRS/TSTMS CONT TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE FA THIS MORNING. DESPITE LOW SFC DEWPTS IN EASTERN PORTIONS OF CWA... RAIN HAS BEEN ABLE TO DEVELOP ASSOCIATED WITH MID LVL MOISTURE. WITH THIS MOISTURE AND THE MCV...RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONT THIS AFTN WITH BEST CHANCES ACROSS NORTHERN OK. HAVE INCREASED POPS ACROSS THE AREA TO SHOW THIS. WITH CLOUD COVER HANGING ON AND RAIN COOLED AIR...HAVE LOWERED MAX TEMPS A CAT OR TWO. WARM TONGUE MAY BE ABLE TO NOSE INTO W N TX ZONES AND SW OK WHERE CLOUD COVER IS NOT AS THICK. ADJUSTED HOURLY GRIDS TO SHOW CURRENT TRENDS. WILL SEND UPDATE SHORTLY. MAXWELL 338 AM CDT WED OCT 6 2004 .DISCUSSION... CURRENT AREA OF CONVECTION MOVING INTO AND DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO WEAKEN TODAY AS REGION OF MESOSCALE LIFT ENCOUNTERS GREATER AMOUNTS OF LESS UNSTABLE/DRIER AIR...WITH MOST IF NOT ALL DEVELOPMENT OVER BY EARLY OR MID AFTERNOON. TSRA SHOULD REDEVELOP LATE TODAY OVER NEW MEXICO/EXTREME WEST TEXAS IN REGION OF UPSLOPE FLOW IN ADVANCE OF THE NEXT SHORTWAVE TROUGH. HAVE REDUCED POPS IN MOST AREAS TONIGHT... ESPECIALLY OVER WESTERN AREAS THIS EVENING WITH THE LOW LEVEL JET ENHANCING DEVELOPMENT OVER A LARGER PART OF THE AREA TOWARD MORNING. LINGERING CONVECTION LIKELY AGAIN THURSDAY MORNING MAINLY OVER EASTERN AREAS WITH THE WEST DRYING OUT BY AFTERNOON. MODELS ARE CONSISTENT IN GENERALLY ALLOWING THE EVOLVING MID/UPPER LOW TO OUR WEST TO WEAKEN SLOWLY BY FRI/SAT WHILE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEASTWARD. EXACTLY WHERE IT ENDS UP DEPENDS ON THE MODEL...HOWEVER THE CONSENSUS INDICATES THE LOW WILL BE NEAR THE TEXAS PANHANDLE BY FRI/SAT WITH AS ASSOCIATED SURFACE TROUGH MOVING INTO WESTERN PARTS OF THE AREA. DEEPER MOISTURE WILL HAVE BEEN ADVECTED EASTWARD BY THIS TIME...WITH ONLY LOW POPS JUSTIFIED FOR ALL AREAS. THE LOW MAY STILL RESIDE CLOSE TO THE AREA SUNDAY WITH THE SURFACE TROUGH/INVERTED TROUGH INFLUENCING CENTRAL AND EASTERN AREAS ALONG WITH A WEAK CAP. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... OKLAHOMA CITY OK 74 62 74 61 / 50 60 60 40 HOBART OK 72 62 75 57 / 100 60 50 30 WICHITA FALLS TX 74 64 74 61 / 100 60 60 40 GAGE OK 70 59 77 54 / 80 60 40 20 PONCA CITY OK 75 61 74 61 / 50 50 60 40 DURANT OK 79 62 73 65 / 40 40 50 50 .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...NONE. TX...NONE. JAMES
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
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.
MAXWELL/MILLERThe Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:27 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A spotter observed this brief tornado which produced no known damage. This tornado was due to a mini-supercell that later produced another tornado west of Walters, Oklahoma in Cotton county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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