Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 78
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 12, 2006, 9:34 PM CST for 23 counties in Arkansas; 25 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2006, 9:34 PM CST (03:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2006, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Conway County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Izard County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Carroll | 62 min |
| Mar 12, 10:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata | 44 min |
| Mar 12, 10:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 11:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers | 56 min |
| Mar 12, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 11:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 59 min |
| Mar 12, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 63 min |
| Mar 13, 12:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 42 min |
| Mar 13, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 16 min |
| Mar 13, 12:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 71 min |
| Mar 13, 12:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Washington | 62 min |
| Mar 13, 12:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair | 27 min |
| Mar 13, 12:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 81 min |
| Mar 13, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 1:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 68 min |
| Mar 13, 1:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 64 min |
| Mar 13, 1:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 63 min |
| Mar 13, 1:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Franklin | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 1:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 51 min |
| Mar 13, 1:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan, Scott | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 2:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 31 min |
| Mar 13, 2:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 56 min |
| Mar 13, 2:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 51 min |
| Mar 13, 2:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope | 60 min |
| Mar 13, 3:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Yell | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 3:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Van Buren | 65 min |
| Mar 13, 3:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery, Perry | 38 min |
| Mar 13, 4:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Perry, Saline | 46 min |
| Mar 13, 4:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Perry, Pulaski, Saline | 55 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 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1549 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 13.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 9:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 4 more | 62 min |
| Mar 12, 11:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 11:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Howard, Little River, Miller, Montgomery, Pike, Polk and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne and 35 more | 91 min |
| Mar 13, 3:13 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 37 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 13, 6:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett | 97 min |
| Mar 13, 9:02 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Crittenden, Cross, Desha and 8 more | 58 min |
| Mar 12, 6:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 65 more | 92 min |
| Mar 12, 8:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 59 more | 90 min |
| Mar 12, 8:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 72 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Madison and 9 more | 85 min |
| Mar 13, 1:06 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Madison, Mississippi and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 12, 6:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 8 more | 114 min |
| Mar 12, 8:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson and 5 more | 3 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.