1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 13, 9:04 PM CST, 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1004 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2003 .DISCUSSION... ...MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE DISCUSSION... 88D VELOCITY CROSS SECTIONS...ALTHOUGH IMPRESSIVE...SEEM TO SIDE WITH THE THEORY THAT SURFACE BASE STORMS SIMPLY WILL NOT COME TO FRUITION THIS EVENING. IMPRESSIVE 50-60 KNOT WINDS EVIDENT AT 3KFT AGL AND APPROACHING 80 KNOTS AT 20KFT...HOWEVER SURFACE REPORTS UNDERNEATH WELL DEVELOPED REAR-INFLOW NOTCHES AND EMBEDDED BOW SIGNATURES HAVE RANGED ANYWHERE FROM DEAD CALM TO 30-40 MPH (WITH LINE SEGMENT IN WARM SECTOR OVER CHEROKEE COUNTY). TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...SOME PEA SIZE HAIL AND SUB-SEVERE WIND GUSTS WILL LIKELY BE THE NORM THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING AS CONVECTIVE LINE SEGMENTS ENTER A BOUNDARY LAYER ENVIRONMENT THAT IS DECOUPLING FASTER THAN LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CAN ADVECT NORTHWARD. DESPITE SOUND METEOROLOGICAL REASONING...WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR SEVERAL SEGMENTS FOR SEVERE POTENTIAL GIVEN IMPRESSIVE REFLECTIVITY SIGNATURES. POST-FRONTAL WINDS OVER KANSAS GRADUALLY SUBSIDING AS PRESSURE RISE MAXIMUM DIVES SOUTH INTO OKLAHOMA WITH STRONG CROSS-ISOBARIC FLOW. THEREFORE...DO NOT ENVISION ANY NEED FOR A WIND ADVISORY OVER THE CWA AT THIS POINT. && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. BOOKBINDER
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-141100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 556 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM...AND OVERSPREAD THE REMAINDER OF THE OZARKS REGION THROUGH THE LATE EVENING HOURS. DISCUSSION: A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WAS CONTINUING TO STRENGTHEN LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AS VERY STRONG JET STREAM WINDS WERE PUSHING OVER THE ROCKIES. MEANWHILE...A WARM FRONT WAS SLOWLY LIFTING NORTHWARD ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI...WITH CLEARING SKIES AND INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE NOTED ACROSS THIS REGION UNDER BREEZY SOUTH WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO QUICKLY INTENSIFY EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG A PREFRONTAL TROUGH OVER EASTERN KANSAS. A NUMBER OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE INTO MUCH GREATER INSTABILITY THAT NOW EXISTS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI. COLD AIR AND VERY STRONG WINDS ALOFT WILL ALLOW THE STRONGEST STORMS TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS THEY ENTER THE OZARKS REGION THIS EVENING. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST DURING THE EVENING HOURS...ESPECIALLY WEST OF ROUTE 65. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 11 PM FOR AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF AN OSCEOLA TO ANDERSON LINE...INCLUDING JOPLIN...NEVADA...FORT SCOTT AND COLUMBUS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AFTER 7 PM. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF BOOKBINDER
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-067-077-078-088-093-101-140400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 516 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 937...IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: BARTON...CEDAR...JASPER...MCDONALD...NEWTON...ST. CLAIR AND VERNON. IN KANSAS: BOURBON...CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD. SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE FORT SCOTT... JOPLIN...NEOSHO...NEVADA...PITTSBURG AND STOCKTON. && A WARM FRONT WAS SLOWLY LIFTING NORTHEAST ACROSS FAR WESTERN MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON. SKIES HAD BECOME PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY ACROSS THE WATCH AREA...WITH DEWPOINTS RISING STEADILY UNDER BREEZY SOUTH WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT IN THE NEXT ONE TO THREE HOURS...AND REACH WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE WATCH AREA BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER MAY NOT BE IMMINENT...PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BOOKBINDER
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</html>The Springfield radar (KSGF), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:02 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees across southeastern sections of Newton County near the community of Stark City.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, October 2003
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5335983.