Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 7, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 4:14 PM CDT for Cole County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
086 WFUS53 KLSX 062114 TORLSX MOC051-135-062200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 414 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 414 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR HIGH POINT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND MAY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL TORNADOES AT ANY TIME * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ENON RUSSELLVILLE EUGENE HICKORY HILL LOHMAN BRAZITO ST. THOMAS WARDSVILLE 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 3852 9273 3834 9272 3833 9216 3858 9217 $$ BRITT
The 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, 4:51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.