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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 10, 2003Crawford County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2003, 4:31 PM CDT for Crawford County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 10, 2003, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crawford County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 10, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 424 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 496 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 13.8

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The text

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

008 
WUUS53 KLSX 102131
SVRLSX
MOC055-102215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
431 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 431 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CUBA...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LEASBURG
  BOURBON

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3819 9158 3789 9153 3789 9111 3821 9111

$$

CVKING

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau, Osage	48 min
Jun 10, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Cole, Osage	43 min
Jun 10, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway	38 min
Jun 10, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade	47 min
Jun 10, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery, Osage	43 min
Jun 10, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	38 min
Jun 10, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Crawford	38 min
Jun 10, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Washington	62 min
Jun 10, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	44 min
Jun 10, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson, Saint Francois	48 min
Jun 10, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	48 min
Jun 10, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve	42 min
Jun 10, 6:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Franklin, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis	4 hr

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.