Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 790
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Sep 22, 2006, 3:37 PM CDT for 10 counties in Illinois; 6 counties in Indiana; 22 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2006, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2006, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 63 min |
| Sep 22, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope, Saline | 27 min |
| Sep 22, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Saline | 64 min |
| Sep 22, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 59 min |
| Sep 22, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin | 55 min |
| Sep 22, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 64 min |
| Sep 22, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 66 min |
| Sep 22, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Webster | 19 min |
| Sep 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Saline | 36 min |
| Sep 22, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Saline, White | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh | 54 min |
| Sep 22, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer | 50 min |
| Sep 22, 6:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gibson, Vanderburgh | 118 min |
| Sep 22, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 6:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Pike, Spencer, Warrick | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Warrick | 36 min |
| Sep 22, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 67 min |
| Sep 22, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 40 min |
| Sep 22, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 21 min |
| Sep 22, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway | 60 min |
| Sep 22, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway | 22 min |
| Sep 22, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard | 51 min |
| Sep 22, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Massac | 47 min |
| Sep 22, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 56 min |
| Sep 22, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 51 min |
| Sep 22, 9:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, White | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Spencer, Warrick | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Webster | 35 min |
| Sep 22, 10:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Webster | 25 min |
| Sep 22, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Marshall | 32 min |
| Sep 22, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 24 min |
| Sep 22, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hopkins | 36 min |
| Sep 22, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Fulton, Graves, Hopkins and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 23 min |
| Sep 22, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 34 min |
| Sep 22, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 25 min |
| Sep 22, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 34 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 415 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 476 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 38 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 42 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 45 more | 90 min |
| Sep 22, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 22, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 22, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 24 more | 113 min |
| Sep 22, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clinton, Crawford and 35 more | 116 min |
| Sep 22, 4:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fulton | 67 min |
| Sep 22, 12:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fulton, Hickman | 90 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.