Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 115
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2006, 9:42 PM CST for 12 counties in Arkansas; 31 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2006, 9:42 PM CST (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2006, 2:40 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Barry County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:46 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Mar 30, 10:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory, Polk | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 10:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 19 min |
| Mar 30, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 11:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller | 19 min |
| Mar 30, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 45 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 535 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 117 min |
| Mar 30, 11:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Sebastian | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 1:13 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 18 more | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 1:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Clay, Cleburne and 32 more | 92 min |
| Mar 31, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 7:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Crawford and 28 more | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Caldwell, Camden and 41 more | 91 min |
| Mar 31, 12:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Perry, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Saint Louis, Washington and 1 more | 92 min |
| Mar 31, 2:43 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid and 6 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.