Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 786
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 22, 2006, 9:10 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2006, 9:10 AM CDT (14:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Particularly dangerous situation
- Yes
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 70 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clark County, AR, Clay County, AR, Cleburne County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Conway County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Faulkner County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Greene County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Independence County, AR, Izard County, AR, Jackson County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Logan County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Marion County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Perry County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Pike County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Prairie County, AR, Pulaski County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Saline County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Stone County, AR, Van Buren County, AR, White County, AR, Woodruff County, AR, Yell County, AR, Dunklin County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Obion County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:10 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
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 70%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 35 min |
| Sep 22, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 50 min |
| Sep 22, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Searcy | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Searcy | 38 min |
| Sep 22, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 34 min |
| Sep 22, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard | 33 min |
| Sep 22, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter, Izard, Stone | 26 min |
| Sep 22, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton | 51 min |
| Sep 22, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard, Sharp | 60 min |
| Sep 22, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Randolph | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 52 min |
| Sep 22, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 48 min |
| Sep 22, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton | 52 min |
| Sep 22, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone | 34 min |
| Sep 22, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Montgomery | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Randolph | 34 min |
| Sep 22, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion, Searcy | 46 min |
| Sep 22, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dunklin | 27 min |
| Sep 22, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Searcy | 37 min |
| Sep 22, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay | 35 min |
| Sep 22, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Perry, Saline | 42 min |
| Sep 22, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 24 min |
| Sep 22, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Greene | 23 min |
| Sep 22, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter | 31 min |
| Sep 22, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter, Stone | 38 min |
| Sep 22, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dunklin | 38 min |
| Sep 22, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay | 31 min |
| Sep 22, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion | 34 min |
| Sep 22, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Pemiscot | 46 min |
| Sep 22, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard | 43 min |
| Sep 22, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 24 min |
| Sep 22, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Newton | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 29 min |
| Sep 22, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson | 25 min |
| Sep 22, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Obion | 54 min |
| Sep 22, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Sharp | 52 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 2207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 13.4
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, 4:39 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Fulton and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 22, 8:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 53 more | 85 min |
| 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.