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Tornado Watch 163

April 7, 20064 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 7, 2006, 11:34 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2006, 11:34 AM CDT (16:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 107 counties

Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Union County, AR, Caldwell Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Grant Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, LaSalle Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Morehouse Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Richland Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, West Carroll Parish, LA, Winn Parish, LA, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	53 min
Apr 7, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln	26 min
Apr 7, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	63 min
Apr 7, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	67 min
Apr 7, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse	67 min
Apr 7, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse	57 min
Apr 7, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	39 min
Apr 7, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Sunflower	65 min
Apr 7, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	29 min
Apr 7, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	43 min
Apr 7, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	37 min
Apr 7, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lincoln	49 min
Apr 7, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Union	33 min
Apr 7, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	62 min
Apr 7, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Arkansas	57 min
Apr 7, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	46 min
Apr 7, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Marshall	12 min
Apr 7, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	35 min
Apr 7, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower	40 min
Apr 7, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley, Chicot	48 min
Apr 7, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	45 min
Apr 7, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	38 min
Apr 7, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	38 min
Apr 7, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	38 min
Apr 7, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	66 min
Apr 7, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	65 min
Apr 7, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Washington	47 min
Apr 7, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Union	47 min
Apr 7, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	45 min
Apr 7, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha	44 min
Apr 7, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	29 min
Apr 7, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Union	41 min
Apr 7, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Calhoun, Ouachita	54 min
Apr 7, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss, Tishomingo	52 min
Apr 7, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	17 min
Apr 7, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	57 min
Apr 7, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	26 min
Apr 7, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	38 min
Apr 7, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Quitman	23 min
Apr 7, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Ouachita	67 min
Apr 7, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Prentiss	52 min
Apr 7, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	36 min
Apr 7, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	34 min
Apr 7, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola	35 min
Apr 7, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	16 min
Apr 7, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Grenada, Montgomery	43 min
Apr 7, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette	27 min
Apr 7, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Lincoln	23 min
Apr 7, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes, Leflore	52 min
Apr 7, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	51 min
Apr 7, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	66 min
Apr 7, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma	19 min
Apr 7, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	48 min
Apr 7, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	32 min
Apr 7, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	59 min
Apr 7, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Bradley	32 min
Apr 7, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	42 min
Apr 7, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale	38 min
Apr 7, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Jackson	65 min
Apr 7, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	35 min
Apr 7, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	49 min
Apr 7, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys	18 min
Apr 7, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Webster	24 min
Apr 7, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Drew	44 min
Apr 7, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun	44 min
Apr 7, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll	56 min
Apr 7, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Union	30 min
Apr 7, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	26 min
Apr 7, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	55 min
Apr 7, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	55 min
Apr 7, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	51 min
Apr 7, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Morehouse, West Carroll	60 min
Apr 7, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman	28 min
Apr 7, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	42 min
Apr 7, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	42 min
Apr 7, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha	41 min
Apr 7, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Union	24 min
Apr 7, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Prentiss	45 min
Apr 7, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Montgomery	66 min
Apr 7, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone	62 min
Apr 7, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Chicot	47 min
Apr 7, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	36 min
Apr 7, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Union	79 min
Apr 7, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Webster	56 min
Apr 7, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Union	32 min
Apr 7, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	43 min
Apr 7, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	25 min
Apr 7, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	20 min
Apr 7, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lawrence	46 min
Apr 7, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun	34 min
Apr 7, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	31 min
Apr 7, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	28 min
Apr 7, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	22 min
Apr 7, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Bradley	57 min
Apr 7, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	49 min
Apr 7, 7:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	4 hr
Apr 7, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	29 min
Apr 7, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	28 min
Apr 7, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison	39 min
Apr 7, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington	52 min
Apr 7, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Union	26 min
Apr 7, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	49 min
Apr 7, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone	17 min
Apr 7, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Drew	51 min
Apr 7, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	31 min
Apr 7, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	53 min
Apr 7, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba	34 min
Apr 7, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Franklin	44 min
Apr 7, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	24 min
Apr 7, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Monroe	41 min
Apr 7, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Desha, Lincoln	51 min
Apr 7, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison	20 min
Apr 7, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale, Lawrence	31 min
Apr 7, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	31 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 1512 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 9.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 10:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Fayette and 18 more	118 min
Apr 7, 2:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more	113 min
Apr 7, 5:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Coosa and 26 more	93 min
Apr 6, 7:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Crawford, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Washington	97 min
Apr 6, 10:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 24 more	84 min
Apr 6, 11:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner, Fulton and 12 more	3 hr
Apr 7, 9:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 5 more	113 min
Apr 7, 10:20 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 4 more	10 hr
Apr 7, 4:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette	67 min
Apr 7, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Columbia, Lafayette, Union	7 hr
Apr 7, 1:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Campbell, Claiborne, Hancock, Hawkins, Scott, Sullivan	55 min
Apr 7, 2:08 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 27 more	8 hr
Apr 7, 3:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 29 more	93 min

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.