Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2003, 8:16 PM CDT for Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, KS
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
480 WFUS53 KSGF 200116 TORSGF KSC037-200200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 816 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN KANSAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MCCUNE...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF OSWEGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CHEROKEE BY 825 PM CDT. FRONTENAC...PITTSBURG BY 835 PM CDT. THE TOWNS OF BEULAH...CHICOPEE...LONE OAK...FRANKLIN AND YALE 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL 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 3735 9511 3733 9485 3736 9465 3756 9465 $$ 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, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 47 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, 8:42 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.