Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 133
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2006, 3:50 PM CDT for 41 counties in Illinois; Fulton County, Kentucky; 22 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2006, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2006, 9:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Alexander County, IL, Bond County, IL, Brown County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Knox County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Menard County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pike County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Union County, IL, Warren County, IL, Washington County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Fulton County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Iron County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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
59 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ripley | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 70 min |
| Apr 2, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ripley | 36 min |
| Apr 2, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Pike | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carter | 19 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, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Francois | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wayne | 50 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, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Jersey, Macoupin | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Schuyler | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | McDonough, Warren | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Greene, Jersey, Macoupin | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henderson | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 73 min |
| Apr 2, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Washington | 55 min |
| Apr 2, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henderson | 20 min |
| Apr 2, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Perry | 59 min |
| Apr 2, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Randolph | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Scott, Stoddard | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 57 min |
| Apr 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Apr 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cass, Menard | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Christian | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Mason | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Union | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Mason, Menard | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 18 min |
| Apr 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Sangamon | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Logan | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Scott, Stoddard | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander, Union | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | DeWitt, McLean, Woodford | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander | 57 min |
| Apr 2, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | McLean, Woodford | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Logan, Tazewell | 23 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander | 93 min |
| Apr 2, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Pike and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 37 more | 89 min |
| 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, 1:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary and 5 more | 91 min |
| Apr 2, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey and 37 more | 5 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, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 7 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.