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Tornado Watch 39
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 8, 2006, 12:33 PM CST for 27 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2006, 12:33 PM CST (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2006, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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.
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 442 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 438 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 081833
SEL9
SPC WW 081833
KSZ000-MOZ000-090200-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 39
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1235 PM CST WED MAR 8 2006
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EASTERN KANSAS
WESTERN MISSOURI
EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 1235 PM UNTIL
800 PM CST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF
CHILLICOTHE MISSOURI TO 45 MILES SOUTH OF CHANUTE KANSAS. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
DISCUSSION...SURFACE LOW NERN KS WITH WARM FRONT EWD THRU MKC INTO
CENTRAL MO. DRY LINE EXTENDS SSWWD FROM LOW INTO NCENTRAL OK.
AIRMASS HAS BECOME MDTLY UNSTABLE E OF DRY LINE WITH A WEAKENING
CAP. STRONG DEEP LAYER SHEAR ACROSS AREA SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF
SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS DURING AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL
TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH BETTER REGION VICINITY ENHANCED LOW
LEVEL SHEAR VICINITY WARM FRONT.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24040.
...HALESSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 9:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 9:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more | 87 min |
| Mar 8, 11:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Doniphan and 10 more | 94 min |
| Mar 8, 12:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Ripley, Scott and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Harrison, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland and 1 more | 5 hr |
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.