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Tornado Watch 119
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 31, 2006, 4:53 PM CST for 8 counties in Arkansas; 14 counties in Mississippi; 45 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2006, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2006, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 67 counties
Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Henry | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 6:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury, Williamson | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 7:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 7:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Maury | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 7:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall, Rutherford | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 8:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 8:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Maury | 2 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 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, 7:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 117 min |
| Mar 30, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Fulton, Izard, Johnson, Logan and 6 more | 5 hr |
| 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 |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2006Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2006Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2006Every tornado watch in 2006
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.