Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 62
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 11, 2006, 12:47 PM CST for 14 counties in Arkansas; 34 counties in Missouri; 26 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2006, 12:47 PM CST (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2006, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howell County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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
52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 14 min |
| Mar 11, 1:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 58 min |
| Mar 11, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 62 min |
| Mar 11, 2:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 44 min |
| Mar 11, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 41 min |
| Mar 11, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 37 min |
| Mar 11, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 73 min |
| Mar 11, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 77 min |
| Mar 11, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 43 min |
| Mar 11, 3:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 14 min |
| Mar 11, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Mar 11, 3:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll | 38 min |
| Mar 11, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone | 43 min |
| Mar 11, 4:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Taney | 58 min |
| Mar 11, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 30 min |
| Mar 11, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 55 min |
| Mar 11, 4:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 66 min |
| Mar 11, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 26 min |
| Mar 11, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller | 22 min |
| Mar 11, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 44 min |
| Mar 11, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 30 min |
| Mar 11, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas | 71 min |
| Mar 11, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 39 min |
| Mar 11, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence | 59 min |
| Mar 11, 5:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 67 min |
| Mar 11, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 31 min |
| Mar 11, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Howell, Texas | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 16 min |
| Mar 11, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 22 min |
| Mar 11, 6:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Webster | 26 min |
| Mar 11, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 40 min |
| Mar 11, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon | 42 min |
| Mar 11, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 40 min |
| Mar 11, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 22 min |
| Mar 11, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene | 54 min |
| Mar 11, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 39 min |
| Mar 11, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Shannon | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 7:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 22 min |
| Mar 11, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 26 min |
| Mar 11, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 31 min |
| Mar 11, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 52 min |
| Mar 11, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 50 min |
| Mar 11, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 16 min |
| Mar 11, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps | 36 min |
| Mar 11, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 24 min |
| Mar 11, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 54 min |
| Mar 11, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 52 min |
| Mar 11, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 64 min |
| Mar 11, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 10, 10:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford and 17 more | 93 min |
| Mar 10, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Randolph | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Randolph | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Conway and 26 more | 65 min |
| Mar 11, 5:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Independence and 6 more | 97 min |
| Mar 11, 9:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 52 more | 54 min |
| Mar 11, 11:59 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Washington | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison and 4 more | 90 min |
| Mar 11, 3:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Pike, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 86 min |
| Mar 11, 1:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cooper, Howard, Lewis and 13 more | 95 min |
| Mar 11, 2:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Crawford and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 11, 3:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade and 14 more | 83 min |
| Mar 10, 6:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 16 more | 83 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.