Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 73, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2003, 9:22 PM CDT for Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 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
- Jun 10, 2003, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 3276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
082 WFUS53 KSGF 110222 TORSGF MOC229-110315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 921 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WRIGHT COUNTY IN MISSOURI * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT. * AT 915 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HARTVILLE...OR 20 MILES NORTH OF AVA...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... WRIGHT COUNTY. THE TOWNS OF ODIN...DAWSON...MANES AND GRAFF 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 LAT...LON 3730 9265 3718 9262 3720 9227 3741 9227 $$ CRAMER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller | 66 min |
| Jun 10, 8:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 8:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 53 min |
| Jun 10, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 9:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 10:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Newton | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 3 hr |
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.