Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 785
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 22, 2006, 4:39 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2006, 4:39 AM CDT (09:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2006, 9:12 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 59 counties
Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Madison County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:40 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 10%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 20%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 48 min |
| Sep 22, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Izard, Stone | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Stone | 35 min |
| Sep 22, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Sharp | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 31 min |
| Sep 22, 6:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 22 min |
| Sep 22, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene | 47 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 7:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Franklin, Garland, Hot Spring, Howard, Logan and 7 more | 115 min |
| Sep 21, 7:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Madison, Washington | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner, Franklin and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Hot Spring and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 4:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 23 more | 67 min |
| Sep 22, 8:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 53 more | 85 min |
| Sep 22, 9:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Clark, Clay, Cleburne and 46 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 22, 11:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 95 min |
| Sep 22, 12:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 22, 12:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll and 64 more | 90 min |
| Sep 22, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark and 58 more | 90 min |
| Sep 22, 5:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Cross and 38 more | 92 min |
| Sep 22, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 22, 1:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba and 11 more | 94 min |
| Sep 22, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 22, 6:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe and 5 more | 60 min |
| Sep 22, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway, Cape Girardeau and 31 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 22, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Henry, Obion, Stewart, Weakley | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.