Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003

Tornado Warning 57, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 10, 2003Crawford County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2003, 4:37 PM CDT for Crawford County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 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: Jun 10, 2003, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 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), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 10, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 424 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 496 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 13.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

628 
WFUS53 KLSX 102137
TORLSX
MOC055-102215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
436 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 436 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR CUBA. THE STORM WAS
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  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.

LAT...LON 3819 9158 3789 9153 3789 9111 3821 9111

$$

CVKING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau, Osage	48 min
Jun 10, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Cole, Osage	43 min
Jun 10, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway	38 min
Jun 10, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade	47 min
Jun 10, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery, Osage	43 min
Jun 10, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford	44 min
Jun 10, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	38 min
Jun 10, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Washington	62 min
Jun 10, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	44 min
Jun 10, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson, Saint Francois	48 min
Jun 10, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	48 min
Jun 10, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve	42 min
Jun 10, 6:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Franklin, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis	4 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2003 Every tornado warning in 2003 Tornadoes 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.