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Tornado Warning 79, NWS Springfield, MO

August 5, 2003Webster County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2003, 9:31 PM CDT for Webster County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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: Aug 5, 2003, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Webster 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
Aug 5, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 2285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

499 
WFUS53 KSGF 060231
TORSGF
MOC225-060315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
931 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.

* AT 925 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MARSHFIELD...OR 25 MILES EAST OF
  SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   DIGGINS...FORDLAND BY 945 PM CDT.
   SEYMOUR BY 950 PM CDT.

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 3747 9274 3748 9306 3710 9305 3707 9269

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	43 min
Aug 5, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	54 min
Aug 5, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	60 min
Aug 5, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	62 min
Aug 5, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	63 min
Aug 5, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	59 min
Aug 5, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	54 min
Aug 5, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller	61 min
Aug 5, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	57 min
Aug 5, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas, Wright	55 min
Aug 5, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	59 min
Aug 5, 10:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas	6 hr
Aug 5, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	62 min
Aug 6, 9:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	55 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.