Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 123
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 1, 2006, 4:01 PM CST for 16 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2006, 4:01 PM CST (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2006, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Barton County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 6:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 34 min |
| Apr 1, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 44 min |
| Apr 1, 6:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 58 min |
| Apr 1, 6:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 61 min |
| Apr 1, 7:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Rice | 59 min |
| Apr 1, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 45 min |
| Apr 1, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Lincoln, Russell | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 7:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 24 min |
| Apr 1, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 26 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2363 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 841 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 12:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 9 more | 93 min |
| Apr 1, 3:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 10 more | 89 min |
| Apr 1, 4:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 5:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Dickinson, Elk and 9 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2006Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.