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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Springfield, MO

June 10, 2003Wright County, Missouri

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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2003-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3276 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2003-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton56 min
Jun 10, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLawrence65 min
Jun 10, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLawrence44 min
Jun 10, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry29 min
Jun 10, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFGreene56 min
Jun 10, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMiller66 min
Jun 10, 8:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFMorgan5 hr
Jun 10, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWebster58 min
Jun 10, 8:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFMiller5 hr
Jun 10, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian53 min
Jun 10, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWright55 min
Jun 10, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTexas61 min
Jun 10, 9:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFMaries5 hr
Jun 10, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDent59 min
Jun 10, 10:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFNewton6 hr
Jun 11, 3:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFPulaski3 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.