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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Quad Cities, IA

May 10, 2003Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT for Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 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: May 10, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 10, 11:35 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 10, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

807 
WFUS53 KDVN 102228
TORDVN
MOC045-199-102300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
528 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CLARK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN SCOTLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 525 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 6 
  MILES SOUTH OF SPILLMAN MOUND...OR 4 MILES NORTH OF   EDINA...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   RUTLEDGE BY 535 PM CDT.
   SOUTH GORIN BY 545 PM CDT.
   FAIRMONT BY 550 PM CDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. A
TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SATURDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHEAST MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 4027 9231 4011 9219 4032 9165 4051 9179

$$

NICHOLS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clark	40 min
May 10, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Clark	34 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.