Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 8, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 4:54 PM CDT for Cole County, Osage County, Missouri. It was in force for 66 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, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cole County, MO, Osage County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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.
468 WFUS53 KLSX 062154 TORLSX MOC051-151-062300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 454 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI OSAGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 453 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR WARDSVILLE. 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... TAOS SCHUBERT WESTPHALIA OSAGE CITY LOOSE CREEK BONNOTS MILL RICH FOUNTAIN LINN FRANKENSTEIN 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 3854 9230 3836 9229 3833 9166 3864 9167 $$ MB/ST
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, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Cole, Moniteau | 46 min |
| May 6, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 39 min |
| May 6, 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 |
Nearby
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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.