Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 11:30 AM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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 8, 2003, 11:30 AM CDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Callaway County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 564 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
149
WUUS53 KLSX 081630
SVRLSX
MOC027-081715-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1130 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 1215 PM CDT
* AT 1130 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF FULTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE DAMAGING HAIL.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FULTON
AUXVASSE
SHAMROCK
WILLIAMSBURG
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 3896 9215 3877 9215 3890 9165 3907 9166
3907 9208
$$
BRITTThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 11:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 51 min |
| May 8, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 66 min |
| May 8, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 47 min |
| May 8, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway | 53 min |
| May 8, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Warren | 41 min |
| May 8, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 39 min |
| May 8, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 62 min |
| May 8, 1:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Warren | 3 hr |
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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.