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Tornado Warning 6, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 6, 2003Moniteau County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 3:32 PM CDT for Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 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, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Moniteau County, MO

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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 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

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The text

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

953 
WFUS53 KLSX 062032
TORLSX
MOC135-062115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
331 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 331 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 10 MILES WEST OF TIPTON.
  THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
  ANY TIME

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TIPTON
  CLARKSBURG
  LATHAM
  CALIFORNIA
  KLIEVER
  MCGIRK
  JAMESTOWN
  SANDY HOOK

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.

IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME OR TRAILER...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND
SEEK SHELTER IN A MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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 3878 9306 3860 9306 3848 9248 3881 9240

$$

BRITT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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
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.