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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Springfield, MO

May 6, 2003Phelps County, Pulaski County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 7:43 PM CDT for Phelps County, Pulaski County, Missouri. 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: May 6, 2003, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 6, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 2206 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 14.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 070043
TORSGF
MOC161-169-070130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
743 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PULASKI COUNTY IN MISSOURI
  PHELPS COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT.

* AT 739 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT LEONARD WOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   NEWBURG...DOOLITTLE BY 805 PM CDT.
   ROLLA BY 815 PM CDT.
   ST. JAMES BY 825 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF DEVILS ELBOW AND EDGAR SPRINGS 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 3783 9229 3765 9226 3766 9181 3777 9181
          3779 9152 3807 9156

$$

BOOKBINDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas	39 min
May 6, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	51 min
May 6, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Laclede	60 min
May 6, 7:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski	6 hr
May 6, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Lawrence	6 hr
May 6, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	39 min
May 6, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	52 min
May 6, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	54 min
May 6, 8:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dent	5 hr
May 6, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	48 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.