Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2003, 7:34 PM CDT for Mercer County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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 4, 2003, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mercer County, MO
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 4, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
135 WUUS53 KEAX 050034 SVREAX MOC129-050115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO 734 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MERCER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 729 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPICKARD...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF TRENTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PRINCETON BY 740 PM CDT. RAVANNA...MERCER BY 750 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP QUICKLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE... SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4045 9377 4026 9376 4028 9342 4055 9340 $$ LVQ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 41 min |
| May 4, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pettis | 50 min |
| May 4, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 27 min |
| May 4, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 61 min |
| May 4, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy | 51 min |
| May 4, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Saline | 51 min |
| May 4, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pettis | 44 min |
| May 4, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay | 39 min |
| May 4, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess | 54 min |
| May 4, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Jackson | 56 min |
| May 4, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Ray | 58 min |
| May 4, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll | 63 min |
| May 4, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 40 min |
| May 4, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette | 66 min |
| May 4, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 43 min |
| May 4, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Saline | 52 min |
| May 4, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 60 min |
| May 4, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton | 44 min |
| May 4, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 55 min |
| May 4, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 31 min |
| May 4, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Macon | 49 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.