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Tornado Watch 171
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 7, 2006, 9:20 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2006, 9:20 PM EDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2006, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 90 counties
Banks County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Lumpkin 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, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson 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, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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
43 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene, Hawkins | 43 min |
| Apr 7, 10:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sequatchie | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 12:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Marion | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 1:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 1:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bradley | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 1:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 42 min |
| Apr 8, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 56 min |
| Apr 8, 1:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Sevier | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 1:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Apr 8, 1:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 2:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Jefferson | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 2:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 2:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 2:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 2:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 15 min |
| Apr 8, 2:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 3:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 3:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 3:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Lumpkin, Union | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 3:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 3:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 3:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 3:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 3:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 4:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Pickens | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 4:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 4:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin | 39 min |
| Apr 8, 4:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 4:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 4:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 5:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin, Stephens | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 5:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 5:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 6:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 6:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 6:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 6:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 20 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 11:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 89 min |
| Apr 8, 3:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:45 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham and 8 more | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 7:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Glascock and 13 more | 93 min |
| Apr 8, 9:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun and 35 more | 113 min |
| Apr 8, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 27 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 13 more | 113 min |
| Apr 8, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Seminole, Thomas | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Lowndes, Ware | 91 min |
| Apr 8, 8:30 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Bladen, Chatham, Chowan, Cumberland, Duplin and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Duplin, Hyde and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico | 86 min |
| Apr 7, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 9 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 53 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 12:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 50 more | 115 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.