Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 11, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 6:07 PM CDT for Crawford County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 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 6, 2003, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 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), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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 6, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
650
WFUS53 KLSX 062307
TORLSX
MOC055-070000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
607 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 16 MILES WEST OF OAK HILL.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
ANY TIME
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OAK HILL
CUBA
LEASBURG
BOURBON
ST. CLOUD
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW MOVE TO A
BASEMENT...UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER...OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY
ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING.
THE TORNADO WITH THIS STORM WILL LIKELY BE WRAPPED IN RAIN. DO NOT BE
LULLED INTO THINKING THE THREAT IS OVER DUE TO THE RAINFALL. STAY IN
SHELTER UNTIL THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION INDICATES THE THREAT HAS
PASSED.
LAT...LON 3822 9154 3782 9154 3771 9131 3774 9111
3821 9110
$$
TES/RPThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 43 min |
| May 6, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Cole, Moniteau | 46 min |
| May 6, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 39 min |
| May 6, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Cole, Osage | 66 min |
| May 6, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Gasconade | 62 min |
| May 6, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin | 54 min |
| May 6, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Warren | 42 min |
| May 6, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 53 min |
| May 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 63 min |
| May 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin | 30 min |
| May 6, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 59 min |
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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.