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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Springfield, MO

November 18, 2003Christian County, Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Nov 18, 2003, 1:29 PM CST for Christian County, Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 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: Nov 18, 2003, 1:29 PM CST (19:29 UTC)
Expired: Nov 18, 2003, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Christian County, MO, Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 21 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: 357 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 181929
TORSGF
MOC043-209-182030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
129 PM CST TUE NOV 18 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN STONE COUNTY IN MISSOURI
  CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 230 PM CST.

* AT 125 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AURORA...OR 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT
  VERNON...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   CLEVER BY 200 PM CST.

THE TOWNS OF HURLEY AND BOAZ ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC
STORM.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL 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 3701 9376 3693 9374 3693 9336 3708 9337

$$

CRAMER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 18, 1:39 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon, Texas	6 hr
Nov 18, 11:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	57 min
Nov 18, 12:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	36 min
Nov 18, 12:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	64 min
Nov 18, 12:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	44 min
Nov 18, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	56 min
Nov 18, 1:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Lawrence	43 min
Nov 18, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	65 min
Nov 18, 1:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory	58 min
Nov 18, 2:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian	4 hr
Nov 18, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	66 min
Nov 18, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Webster	60 min
Nov 18, 2:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	66 min
Nov 18, 3:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	57 min
Nov 18, 3:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	53 min
Nov 18, 3:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dent, Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Phelps and 3 more	6 hr
Nov 18, 3:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	62 min
Nov 18, 4:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	39 min
Nov 18, 5:14 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Wright	4 hr
Nov 18, 5:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.