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Tornado Watch 145
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 2006, 3:47 AM EDT for 37 counties in Georgia; 24 counties in North Carolina; 5 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2006, 3:47 AM EDT (07:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2006, 9:12 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 66 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Swain | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 4:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 4:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 5:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 5:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 5:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell, Yancey | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 5:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 5:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 5:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 5:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 5:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 5:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 5:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 20 min |
| Apr 3, 5:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 6:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 6:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 6:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 6:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Union | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 6:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 6:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 6:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 21 min |
| Apr 3, 6:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 58 min |
| Apr 3, 6:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 6:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 22 min |
| Apr 3, 7:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 21 min |
| Apr 3, 7:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Lincoln | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 7:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 12 min |
| Apr 3, 7:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 61 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 587 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 9 more | 96 min |
| Apr 3, 2:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Fayette and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 6:10 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 11:55 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:16 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Floyd and 13 more | 89 min |
| Apr 3, 12:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 61 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Chatham, Cumberland, Duplin, Edgecombe and 19 more | 86 min |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chatham and 37 more | 114 min |
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 56 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland and 19 more | 91 min |
| Apr 2, 8:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 45 more | 84 min |
| Apr 2, 8:38 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:14 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:27 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley and 64 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2006Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2006Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 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.