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Tornado Watch 170
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 7, 2006, 7:48 PM CDT for 48 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Mississippi; 59 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2006, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2006, 2:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 118 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Ballard County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Larue County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marion County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion, Weakley | 14 min |
| Apr 7, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 31 min |
| Apr 7, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 19 min |
| Apr 7, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 23 min |
| Apr 7, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 26 min |
| Apr 7, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OHX | Cumberland, Fentress | 3 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew | 9 hr |
| Apr 7, 10:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 89 min |
| Apr 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Columbia, Union | 95 min |
| Apr 7, 11:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Mississippi | 115 min |
| Apr 8, 2:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 29 more | 90 min |
| Apr 7, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Carter, Cocke and 23 more | 10 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 2006Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2006Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 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.