Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 19, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT for Sainte Genevieve 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 6, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sainte Genevieve County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
791
WFUS53 KLSX 070100
TORLSX
MOC186-070145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
800 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
* AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES WEST OF COFFMAN.
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A
TORNADO AT ANY TIME
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COFFMAN
WEINGARTEN
RIVER AUX VASES
BLOOMSDALE
MINNITH
STE. GENEVIEVE
ST. MARY
THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.
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.
LAT...LON 3805 9043 3799 9033 3788 9046 3777 9031
3765 9015 3789 8995 3813 9025
$$
TES/RPThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 44 min |
| May 6, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson | 59 min |
| May 6, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 50 min |
| May 6, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin | 3 hr |
| May 6, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 52 min |
| May 6, 7:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| May 6, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Saint Francois | 38 min |
| May 6, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Reynolds | 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.