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Tornado Watch 130

April 2, 20067 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Iowa; 64 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2006, 12:28 PM CDT for 7 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Iowa; 64 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2006, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 82 counties

Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Lee County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Pike County, IL, Warren County, IL, Adair County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Christian County, MO, Clark County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Knox County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Maries County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pike County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Stone County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	50 min
Apr 2, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wayne	24 min
Apr 2, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan	42 min
Apr 2, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone	23 min
Apr 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway	40 min
Apr 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	37 min
Apr 2, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Chariton, Howard, Macon, Randolph	51 min
Apr 2, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	63 min
Apr 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	30 min
Apr 2, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain	38 min
Apr 2, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Davis	38 min
Apr 2, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Lucas	41 min
Apr 2, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Putnam, Schuyler	38 min
Apr 2, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Osage	38 min
Apr 2, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	38 min
Apr 2, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Monroe	36 min
Apr 2, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Van Buren	65 min
Apr 2, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	48 min
Apr 2, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Knox, Monroe, Shelby	60 min
Apr 2, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Adair, Macon	28 min
Apr 2, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	16 min
Apr 2, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Davis	38 min
Apr 2, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Cole, Moniteau	41 min
Apr 2, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	66 min
Apr 2, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade	49 min
Apr 2, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway, Montgomery	46 min
Apr 2, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	30 min
Apr 2, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	55 min
Apr 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps	35 min
Apr 2, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wapello	25 min
Apr 2, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	24 min
Apr 2, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	67 min
Apr 2, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jefferson	51 min
Apr 2, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford, Franklin, Washington	66 min
Apr 2, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Pike	50 min
Apr 2, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Davis	18 min
Apr 2, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	17 min
Apr 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron, Reynolds	46 min
Apr 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	46 min
Apr 2, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis, Marion	40 min
Apr 2, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry, Van Buren	46 min
Apr 2, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Oregon	16 min
Apr 2, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	30 min
Apr 2, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Lee	69 min
Apr 2, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion, Ralls	49 min
Apr 2, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	11 min
Apr 2, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams	56 min
Apr 2, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Calhoun, Pike	56 min
Apr 2, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Hancock	63 min
Apr 2, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron, Reynolds	48 min
Apr 2, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	33 min
Apr 2, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Adams, Pike	37 min
Apr 2, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Iron, Madison, Saint Francois	44 min
Apr 2, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	24 min
Apr 2, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Iron, Reynolds	49 min
Apr 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Brown	46 min
Apr 2, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	McDonough, Warren	49 min
Apr 2, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henderson	60 min
Apr 2, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henderson	20 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 272 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: 74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -267 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 407 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 468 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 10:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander	93 min
Apr 2, 3:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 37 more	89 min
Apr 2, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 35 more	5 hr
Apr 2, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 16 more	4 hr
Apr 2, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 20 more	7 hr
Apr 2, 6:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 21 more	54 min
Apr 2, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Clarke, Dallas and 12 more	4 hr
Apr 1, 11:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barry, Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence and 4 more	4 hr
Apr 2, 12:44 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell and 36 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 1:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Camden, Christian, Dallas, Dent, Douglas, Greene and 14 more	3 hr
Apr 2, 9:41 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 24 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 11:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Audrain, Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 32 more	116 min
Apr 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dunklin, Pemiscot	7 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2006 Tornado Watches in Iowa, 2006 Tornado Watches in Illinois, 2006 Every 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.