Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 71, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 16, 2003, 6:32 AM CDT for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 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 16, 2003, 6:32 AM CDT (11:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2003, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Barry County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
392
WFUS53 KSGF 161132
TORSGF
MOC009-161230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
632 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BARRY COUNTY IN MISSOURI
* UNTIL 730 AM CDT.
* AT 629 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WASHBURN...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF PEA
RIDGE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
CASSVILLE...EXETER BY 640 AM CDT.
PURDY BY 645 AM CDT.
THE TOWNS OF WAYNE...JENKINS AND WHEELERVILLE ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADIC STORM.
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.
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 3665 9408 3652 9404 3652 9363 3692 9362
3690 9399
$$
IZZIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 5:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 46 min |
| May 16, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald | 77 min |
| May 16, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 51 min |
| May 16, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 64 min |
| May 16, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 62 min |
| May 16, 7:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Newton | 6 hr |
| May 16, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 53 min |
| May 16, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 42 min |
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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.