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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Kansas City, MO

May 10, 2003Randolph County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 5:58 PM CDT for Randolph 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, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Randolph County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 281 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

533 
WFUS53 KEAX 102258
TOREAX
MOC175-102330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
557 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 556 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE STRONG 
ROTATION AND TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR 
CAIRO...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOBERLY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 
MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY 
WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  RANDOLPH COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3960 9231 3937 9239 3957 9252

$$


SF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	59 min
May 9, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	63 min
May 9, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	38 min
May 9, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard, Randolph	67 min
May 9, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	62 min
May 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	65 min
May 9, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	66 min
May 9, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Macon	64 min
May 9, 9:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cass	6 hr
May 9, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cass	30 min
May 9, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	59 min
May 9, 10:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Lafayette	42 min
May 9, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	63 min
May 9, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Saline	59 min
May 9, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	62 min
May 9, 10:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	61 min
May 9, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	39 min
May 9, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	45 min
May 10, 3:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	53 min
May 10, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	46 min
May 10, 3:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	37 min
May 10, 3:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	56 min
May 10, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	62 min
May 10, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	40 min
May 10, 4:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	39 min
May 10, 4:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	57 min
May 10, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	37 min
May 10, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	60 min
May 10, 4:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	65 min
May 10, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	64 min
May 10, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	67 min
May 10, 5:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	49 min
May 10, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	72 min
May 10, 5:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	6 hr
May 10, 5:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Randolph	6 hr
May 10, 6:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass	13 min
May 10, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll	55 min
May 10, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Ray	60 min
May 10, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	DeKalb, Gentry	43 min
May 10, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	67 min
May 10, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Harrison	50 min
May 10, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Daviess	44 min
May 10, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Daviess, Harrison	51 min
May 10, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	58 min
May 10, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Carroll	58 min
May 10, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Mercer	64 min
May 10, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette, Saline	59 min
May 10, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Chariton	42 min
May 10, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Adair, Sullivan	65 min
May 10, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Saline	43 min
May 10, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Macon	47 min
May 10, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam	60 min
May 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Putnam	65 min
May 10, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard	53 min
May 10, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Randolph	63 min
May 10, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Randolph	39 min
May 10, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cooper	46 min
May 10, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Putnam	29 min
May 10, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Henry	47 min
May 10, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	45 min
May 10, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton	38 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.