Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 2006, 9:01 AM CST for Obion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2006, 9:01 AM CST (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2006, 9:30 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Obion County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:04 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 9:25 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Woodland Mills, TN | STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOUSE, PART OF ROOF TAKEN OFF AND CARPORT DAMAGED. TREES DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 6:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMEG 091502
TORMEG
TNC131-091530-
/O.NEW.KMEG.TO.W.0002.060309T1501Z-060309T1530Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
901 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
OBION COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TENNESSEE
* UNTIL 930 AM CST
* AT 859 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLAYTON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF
PORTAGEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HORNBEAK...
SAMBURG AND WOODLAND MILLS.
.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.
.STAY TUNED TO THIS BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND INFORMATION.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL 1 800 4 3 2 0 8 7 5.
LAT...LON 3634 8926 3625 8936 3630 8941 3631 8940
3636 8940 3640 8936 3646 8936 3650 8933
3650 8900
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 7:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake, Obion | 44 min |
| Mar 9, 8:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Obion | 49 min |
| Mar 9, 8:42 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MEG | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 9, 9:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Obion | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 9:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Weakley | 33 min |
| Mar 9, 9:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Obion | 25 min |
| Mar 9, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 45 min |
| Mar 9, 12:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Shelby | 118 min |
| Mar 9, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 12:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lake | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 12:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 1:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood | 40 min |
| Mar 9, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett | 40 min |
| Mar 9, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 40 min |
| Mar 9, 1:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | McNairy | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 2:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crockett, Haywood | 39 min |
| Mar 9, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 41 min |
| Mar 9, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 2:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Madison | 24 min |
| Mar 9, 3:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 16 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.