Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003

Tornado Warning 31, NWS Springfield, MO

May 4, 2003Phelps County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 9:53 PM CDT for Phelps County, Missouri. It was in force for 67 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 4, 2003, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Phelps County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 4, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2003-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2099 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2003-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 321 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2099 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
321 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
4.6
Supercell composite
15.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 050253
TORSGF
MOC161-050400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
953 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PHELPS COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT.

* AT 948 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WAYNESVILLE...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT
  LEONARD WOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   NEWBURG...DOOLITTLE BY 1015 PM CDT.
   ROLLA BY 1020 PM CDT.
   ST. JAMES BY 1030 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF JEROME AND NORTHWYE ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADIC STORM.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF 
BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3799 9202 3771 9200 3781 9156 3814 9155

$$

IZZI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFHickory55 min
May 4, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDallas64 min
May 4, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton32 min
May 4, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar39 min
May 4, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFChristian, Greene, Stone66 min
May 4, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCamden63 min
May 4, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar40 min
May 4, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFMiller52 min
May 4, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFWebster64 min
May 4, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCedar44 min
May 4, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFPolk57 min
May 4, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMaries, Pulaski56 min
May 4, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFWright42 min
May 4, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFMaries54 min
May 4, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDallas50 min
May 4, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFLaclede44 min
May 4, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCamden, Pulaski54 min
May 4, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFLaclede19 min
May 4, 9:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFVernon43 min
May 4, 10:17 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDent58 min
May 4, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFSt. Clair57 min
May 4, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFVernon46 min
May 4, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFJasper44 min
May 4, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDade50 min
May 4, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPolk51 min
May 5, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLawrence56 min
May 5, 12:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFGreene56 min
May 5, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDallas, Laclede, Webster35 min
May 5, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWebster46 min
May 5, 1:28 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFWebster, Wright62 min
May 5, 1:58 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFTexas62 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.