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Tornado Watch 134

April 2, 200618 counties in Arkansas; 27 counties in Mississippi; 20 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2006, 4:40 PM CDT for 18 counties in Arkansas; 27 counties in Mississippi; 20 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2006, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2006, 10:33 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 65 counties

Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Prairie County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	14 min
Apr 2, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Phillips	34 min
Apr 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	14 min
Apr 2, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross	24 min
Apr 2, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross	29 min
Apr 2, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	31 min
Apr 2, 7:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross, St. Francis	28 min
Apr 2, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake	43 min
Apr 2, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden	29 min
Apr 2, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Obion	44 min
Apr 2, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	31 min
Apr 2, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	50 min
Apr 2, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lake	29 min
Apr 2, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer	17 min
Apr 2, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	31 min
Apr 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden	25 min
Apr 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	25 min
Apr 2, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	36 min
Apr 2, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Obion	34 min
Apr 2, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Weakley	54 min
Apr 2, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	20 min
Apr 2, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	28 min
Apr 2, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson	35 min
Apr 2, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	34 min
Apr 2, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Prairie, White, Woodruff	60 min
Apr 2, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	24 min
Apr 2, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	35 min
Apr 2, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll	41 min
Apr 2, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Poinsett	34 min
Apr 2, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood, Tipton	40 min
Apr 2, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Mississippi	50 min
Apr 2, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	33 min
Apr 2, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer	41 min
Apr 2, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Monroe, Prairie, Woodruff	45 min
Apr 2, 10:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Haywood	45 min
Apr 2, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden	19 min
Apr 2, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood	39 min
Apr 2, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lonoke	38 min
Apr 2, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	51 min
Apr 2, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tipton	44 min
Apr 2, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Weakley	25 min
Apr 2, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Madison	33 min
Apr 2, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry	45 min
Apr 2, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer	28 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 258 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -207 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 6:30 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Cleveland, Conway, Crawford, Dallas, Faulkner and 21 more	90 min
Apr 1, 11:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	4 hr
Apr 2, 12:44 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 10:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 19 more	93 min
Apr 2, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada	6 hr
Apr 2, 2:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 42 more	90 min
Apr 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 25 more	7 hr
Apr 2, 1:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cannon, Cheatham and 48 more	91 min
Apr 2, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 33 more	5 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2006 Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2006 Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 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.