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Tornado Warning 44, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 10, 2003Shelby County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 5:21 PM CDT for Shelby 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 10, 2003, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Shelby County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 10, 11:35 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 249 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

878 
WFUS53 KLSX 102221
TORLSX
MOC205-102300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
521 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SHELBY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES WEST OF CLARENCE.
  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A
  TORNADO AT ANY TIME

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LEONARD
  BETHEL
  SHELBYVILLE

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 3980 9252 3965 9241 3970 9188 3994 9186
          3996 9226

$$
FG

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain	42 min
May 9, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve	42 min
May 9, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike, Ralls	49 min
May 9, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Knox, Lewis	37 min
May 9, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	44 min
May 10, 2:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Montgomery, Warren	41 min
May 10, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	63 min
May 10, 3:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone	4 hr
May 10, 5:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Pike, Ralls	52 min
May 10, 6:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Pike	4 hr
May 10, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	48 min
May 10, 8:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Saint Charles, Saint Louis	41 min
May 10, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	47 min
May 10, 10:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Crawford	43 min
May 10, 11:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Saint Charles	3 hr
May 10, 11:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Audrain	3 hr
May 10, 11:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	49 min
May 10, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Knox	51 min
May 10, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Monroe	40 min
May 10, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Boone, Moniteau	48 min
May 10, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Knox, Lewis	31 min
May 10, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Lewis, Marion	43 min
May 10, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Shelby	41 min
May 10, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford	37 min
May 10, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Marion, Monroe, Ralls	47 min
May 10, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Lewis	47 min
May 10, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone	61 min
May 10, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	66 min
May 10, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Marion	52 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.