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Tornado Watch 111

March 30, 20064 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2006, 2:15 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2006, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2006, 9:59 PM CST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 115 counties

Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Boone County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Greene County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Polk County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Warren County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Greene County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Worth County, MO, Wright County, MO, Burt County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy	17 min
Mar 30, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Wayne	58 min
Mar 30, 2:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	40 min
Mar 30, 2:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax	41 min
Mar 30, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Stanton	27 min
Mar 30, 2:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Nodaway, Worth	31 min
Mar 30, 2:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming	51 min
Mar 30, 3:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	18 min
Mar 30, 3:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass	42 min
Mar 30, 3:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	39 min
Mar 30, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Ringgold, Union	21 min
Mar 30, 3:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Thurston	34 min
Mar 30, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Saunders	33 min
Mar 30, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	28 min
Mar 30, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt	38 min
Mar 30, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Washington	33 min
Mar 30, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Douglas, Saunders	30 min
Mar 30, 3:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	24 min
Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Monona	60 min
Mar 30, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy	29 min
Mar 30, 3:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy	23 min
Mar 30, 3:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Washington	16 min
Mar 30, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	30 min
Mar 30, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, St. Clair, Vernon	45 min
Mar 30, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills	37 min
Mar 30, 4:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	25 min
Mar 30, 4:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Harrison	37 min
Mar 30, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	37 min
Mar 30, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page	49 min
Mar 30, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	31 min
Mar 30, 4:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	46 min
Mar 30, 4:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Shelby	20 min
Mar 30, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	38 min
Mar 30, 4:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Carroll	41 min
Mar 30, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	40 min
Mar 30, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	53 min
Mar 30, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Montgomery	17 min
Mar 30, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	63 min
Mar 30, 5:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adams, Cass	28 min
Mar 30, 5:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Taylor	49 min
Mar 30, 5:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Carroll, Sac	32 min
Mar 30, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams	32 min
Mar 30, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew	52 min
Mar 30, 5:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Polk, Warren	19 min
Mar 30, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Guthrie	28 min
Mar 30, 5:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DMX	Polk	37 min
Mar 30, 5:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Greene	35 min
Mar 30, 5:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Ringgold, Union	50 min
Mar 30, 5:42 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy	6 hr
Mar 30, 5:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Madison	46 min
Mar 30, 5:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas	24 min
Mar 30, 5:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	62 min
Mar 30, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DMX	Union	30 min
Mar 30, 6:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	39 min
Mar 30, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone	52 min
Mar 30, 6:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Bourbon	39 min
Mar 30, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Polk	47 min
Mar 30, 6:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	44 min
Mar 30, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke	43 min
Mar 30, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Miami	35 min
Mar 30, 6:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	38 min
Mar 30, 6:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	49 min
Mar 30, 6:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Linn	39 min
Mar 30, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Nodaway	31 min
Mar 30, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Ray	31 min
Mar 30, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Warren	27 min
Mar 30, 7:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Bates, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson	55 min
Mar 30, 7:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Andrew	13 min
Mar 30, 7:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates	32 min
Mar 30, 7:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Carroll, Lafayette, Ray, Saline	39 min
Mar 30, 7:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway	23 min
Mar 30, 7:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry, Johnson	35 min
Mar 30, 7:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Andrew, Gentry, Nodaway, Worth	32 min
Mar 30, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson	32 min
Mar 30, 8:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DMX	Ringgold	28 min
Mar 30, 8:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Harrison	27 min
Mar 30, 8:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	37 min
Mar 30, 8:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning Emergency	EAX	Johnson, Pettis	41 min
Mar 30, 8:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DMX	Decatur	37 min
Mar 30, 8:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Pettis, Saline	37 min
Mar 30, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	42 min
Mar 30, 8:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cooper	55 min
Mar 30, 8:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	23 min
Mar 30, 8:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard, Saline	44 min
Mar 30, 8:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DMX	Clarke	25 min
Mar 30, 8:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	DMX	Clarke	25 min
Mar 30, 8:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	39 min
Mar 30, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	47 min
Mar 30, 9:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	29 min
Mar 30, 9:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	51 min
Mar 30, 9:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar	51 min
Mar 30, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cooper, Howard	17 min
Mar 30, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	34 min
Mar 30, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	29 min

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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -290 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 426 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 459 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 7:29 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 25 more	2 hr
Mar 30, 12:03 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more	117 min
Mar 30, 1:22 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista and 35 more	113 min
Mar 30, 5:42 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 27 more	93 min
Mar 30, 5:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 51 more	6 hr
Mar 30, 2:58 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 26 more	2 hr
Mar 30, 3:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 23 more	5 hr
Mar 30, 7:07 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 14 more	113 min
Mar 30, 8:42 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Brown and 56 more	9 hr
Mar 30, 9:42 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 23 more	93 min
Mar 30, 11:47 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary, Harvey and 15 more	88 min
Mar 30, 3:12 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 35 more	63 min
Mar 30, 5:39 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more	6 hr

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.