Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 333

May 10, 200316 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 10, 2003, 3:15 AM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2003, 3:15 AM CDT (08:15 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 52 counties

Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO, Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 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.

Warnings issued inside it

17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	28 min
May 10, 3:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	53 min
May 10, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Richardson	30 min
May 10, 3:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	37 min
May 10, 3:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Pawnee	32 min
May 10, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Osage	47 min
May 10, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Clay	62 min
May 10, 3:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	32 min
May 10, 4:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Platte	39 min
May 10, 4:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Saline	57 min
May 10, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper	37 min
May 10, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson	60 min
May 10, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	66 min
May 10, 4:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Ray	65 min
May 10, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Lafayette	67 min
May 10, 5:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Howard	49 min
May 10, 5:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline	6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -412 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 422 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Butler, Chase, Coffey, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more	5 hr
May 9, 7:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 5 more	88 min
May 9, 10:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more	26 min
May 9, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more	6 hr
May 10, 12:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 24 more	86 min
May 10, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 25 more	5 hr
May 10, 2:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 25 more	92 min
May 10, 3:05 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 17 more	5 hr
May 10, 5:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more	93 min
May 10, 7:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 10 more	54 min
May 10, 9:16 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	3 hr
May 10, 10:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 2 more	66 min
May 10, 10:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Coffey and 18 more	2 hr
May 10, 11:35 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Linn, Miami	7 hr
May 10, 11:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more	7 hr
May 10, 1:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Miami	2 hr
May 10, 1:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more	2 hr
May 10, 1:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Newton	83 min
May 10, 5:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Knox, Lewis and 11 more	92 min
May 10, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Franklin and 19 more	5 hr
May 10, 9:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Perry, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois and 1 more	2 hr
May 10, 3:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Schuyler, Scotland	58 min
May 10, 3:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Franklin, Gasconade, Howell and 16 more	2 hr
May 10, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland	6 hr
May 10, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 22 more	5 hr
May 10, 4:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Chariton and 24 more	87 min
May 10, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Chariton and 32 more	5 hr
May 10, 6:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Lewis and 13 more	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003

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.