Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 1:06 PM CDT for Montgomery 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
- May 8, 2003, 1:06 PM CDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
056 WUUS53 KLSX 081806 SVRLSX MOC139-081845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 106 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 106 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF WELLSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WELLSVILLE MONTGOMERY CITY BUELL BELLFLOWER THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...AND HAS DOWNED NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES. TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN THE INTERIOR PORTION OF A STURDY BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS LAT...LON 3915 9162 3893 9163 3886 9128 3914 9129 $$ BRITT
The 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, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 45 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, 1:28 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.