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Tornado Warning 75, NWS Springfield, MO

July 11, 2003Dallas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 2003, 6:18 PM CDT for Dallas County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 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: Jul 11, 2003, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dallas County, MO

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 11, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 112318
TORSGF
MOC059-120000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
618 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DALLAS COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT.

* AT 616 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUFFALO...OR 17 MILES WEST
  OF LEBANON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  DALLAS COUNTY.

THE TOWNS OF PLAD...WINDYVILLE AND LONG LANE 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

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 3784 9289 3777 9310 3750 9303 3751 9287

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	59 min
Jul 11, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	40 min
Jul 11, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	53 min
Jul 11, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Benton	48 min
Jul 11, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede	53 min
Jul 11, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	52 min
Jul 11, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory	45 min
Jul 11, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	65 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.