Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2003, 7:58 PM CDT for McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 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
- May 1, 2003, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McCurtain County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 3075 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
669 WFUS54 KSHV 020058 TORSHV OKC089-020200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 755 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 755 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW...OR 3 MILES NORTH OF GLOVER... MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BROKEN BOW AT 815 PM CDT THIS THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO THAT IS OBSCURED BY RAIN... AND DIFFICULT TO SEE. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA UNTIL 900 PM CDT. LAT...LON 3427 9491 3407 9502 3382 9451 3422 9448 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 54 min |
| May 1, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 28 min |
| May 1, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 59 min |
| May 1, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 37 min |
| May 1, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 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.