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Tornado Watch 118
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 31, 2006, 2:43 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2006, 2:43 PM CST (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2006, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 119 counties
Alexander County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Carroll, Howard | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Clinton, Montgomery | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Parke, Putnam | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Owen, Putnam, Vigo | 65 min |
| Mar 31, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Tipton | 55 min |
| Mar 31, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 5:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hendricks | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Johnson, Morgan | 59 min |
| Mar 31, 5:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Marion | 38 min |
| Mar 31, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Owen, Sullivan | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Delaware, Henry, Madison | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Owen | 18 min |
| Mar 31, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Rush, Shelby | 66 min |
| Mar 31, 6:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Johnson, Shelby | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Rush | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Hancock, Rush, Shelby | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson, Monroe, Shelby | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Randolph | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Shelby | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Brown, Jackson, Monroe | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 7:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Greene, Lawrence, Martin | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 7:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Decatur, Rush | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Greene, Jackson, Jennings and 4 more | 54 min |
| Mar 31, 7:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Jackson, Jennings | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 8:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | IND | Jennings | 23 min |
| Mar 31, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Orange, Scott, Washington | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings, Lawrence, Martin | 24 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton, Greene and 13 more | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 11:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 46 more | 92 min |
| Mar 31, 12:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jasper and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Lawrence | 57 min |
| Mar 31, 1:32 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall and 1 more | 92 min |
| Mar 30, 8:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Caldwell, Camden and 41 more | 91 min |
| Mar 30, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:13 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Carter, Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark and 7 more | 62 min |
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.