Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2003, 2:06 PM CDT for Iron County, Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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
- Apr 29, 2003, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2003, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Iron County, MO, Washington County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
070 WUUS53 KLSX 291906 SVRLSX MOC093-221-291945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 206 PM CDT TUE APR 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI NORTHERN IRON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 206 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COURTOIS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE DAMAGING HAIL. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BELLEVIEW 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 3775 9113 3758 9103 3760 9064 3800 9074 $$ FG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Francois | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison | 53 min |
| Apr 29, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 30 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.