Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 14, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 6:46 PM CDT for Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 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, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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 |
| May 6, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 290 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.
205
WFUS53 KLSX 062346
TORLSX
MOC221-070045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
646 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES WEST OF ANTHONIES
MILL. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A
TORNADO AT ANY TIME
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
POTOSI
LATTY
SHIRLEY
RICHWOODS
OLD MINES
MINERAL POINT
CADET
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.
THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
LAT...LON 3822 9079 3820 9110 3775 9111 3776 9066
3809 9065
$$
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, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Crawford | 53 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 |
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.