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Tornado Watch 54
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 9, 2006, 5:18 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2006, 5:18 PM CST (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2006, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Greene County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Carroll County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Obion County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 27 min |
| Mar 9, 5:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Stoddard | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 5:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Scott | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 6:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake | 41 min |
| Mar 9, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 17 min |
| Mar 9, 6:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander | 29 min |
| Mar 9, 6:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 114 min |
| Mar 9, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 52 min |
| Mar 9, 6:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 6:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 44 min |
| Mar 9, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 29 min |
| Mar 9, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves, McCracken | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Mar 9, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 3 more | 40 min |
| Mar 9, 6:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson, Weakley | 39 min |
| Mar 9, 6:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden | 33 min |
| Mar 9, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin | 45 min |
| Mar 9, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 7:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Saline | 43 min |
| Mar 9, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, Wayne, White | 54 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Crawford and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:36 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:57 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Polk, Scott, Sebastian | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 5:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 6:10 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 30 more | 95 min |
| Mar 9, 6:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Clay, Cleveland, Craighead, Crittenden and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 7 more | 116 min |
| Mar 9, 11:05 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chicot | 85 min |
| Mar 9, 11:29 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chicot | 7 hr |
| Mar 9, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Faulkner, Fulton, Grant, Hot Spring and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Conway, Marion, Newton, Perry and 3 more | 84 min |
| Mar 9, 4:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 7:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Henry, Jo Daviess and 10 more | 89 min |
| Mar 9, 12:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Edwards, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Boyle and 50 more | 88 min |
| Mar 9, 4:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 59 more | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 5:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone and 67 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:04 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Caldwell, Camden and 32 more | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 8:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Newton | 53 min |
| Mar 8, 9:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Cass, Cedar, Dade, Henry and 3 more | 64 min |
| Mar 9, 1:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb, Franklin and 21 more | 83 min |
| Mar 9, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, Davidson and 24 more | 6 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.