Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 9:08 PM CST for Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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
- Mar 12, 2003, 9:08 PM CST (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2003, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherokee County, KS
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
687 WUUS53 KSGF 130308 SVRSGF KSC021-130400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 908 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN AND WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CST * AT 906 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCCUNE...OR 8 MILES EAST OF PARSONS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEST MINERAL BY 920 PM CST. SCAMMON BY 925 PM CST. COLUMBUS...WEIR BY 930 PM CST. THE TOWNS OF SHERWIN...ROSELAND...SKIDMORE...STIPPVILLE AND CRESTLINE ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 3731 9505 3706 9506 3713 9465 3731 9464 $$ IZZI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Crawford | 31 min |
| Mar 12, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 10:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 34 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.