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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO

April 19, 2003Cherokee County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2003, 7:13 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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: Apr 19, 2003, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 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), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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
Apr 19, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 19, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

224 
WFUS53 KSGF 200013
TORSGF
KSC021-200100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
712 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN KANSAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 712 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO NEAR EDNA...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF ALTAMONT...MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF COFFEYVILLE. 

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   COLUMBUS...AND WEST MINERAL BY 755 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF FAULKNER...SHERMAN...HALLOWELL...SHERWIN AND STIPPVILLE
ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3716 9541 3699 9533 3714 9468 3735 9478

$$

TERRY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	53 min
Apr 19, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Crawford	37 min
Apr 19, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cherokee	41 min
Apr 19, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Crawford	44 min
Apr 19, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	48 min
Apr 19, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	49 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.