Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 832
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 16, 2006, 5:39 PM CDT for 12 counties in Alabama; 18 parishes in Louisiana; 47 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 2006, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2006, 1:43 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 77 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Ascension Parish, LA, Catahoula Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Carroll Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Franklin Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, Madison Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Tangipahoa Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 17 min |
| Oct 16, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 46 min |
| Oct 16, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 42 min |
| Oct 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 32 min |
| Oct 16, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 17 min |
| Oct 16, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 27 min |
| Oct 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 41 min |
| Oct 16, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 37 min |
| Oct 16, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 54 min |
| Oct 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | East Carroll, Madison | 6 hr |
| Oct 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 40 min |
| Oct 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 37 min |
| Oct 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 48 min |
| Oct 16, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 25 min |
| Oct 16, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 48 min |
| Oct 16, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 13 min |
| Oct 16, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Holmes | 46 min |
| Oct 16, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Madison, Tensas | 39 min |
| Oct 16, 8:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo | 6 hr |
| Oct 16, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 39 min |
| Oct 16, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 33 min |
| Oct 16, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 34 min |
| Oct 16, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 29 min |
| Oct 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 32 min |
| Oct 16, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Concordia | 37 min |
| Oct 16, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 50 min |
| Oct 16, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 43 min |
| Oct 16, 10:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 6 hr |
| Oct 16, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana | 66 min |
| Oct 16, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin, Jefferson | 45 min |
| Oct 16, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 38 min |
| Oct 16, 10:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Attala | 4 hr |
| Oct 16, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 51 min |
| Oct 16, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 44 min |
| Oct 16, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 49 min |
| Oct 16, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 44 min |
| Oct 16, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 35 min |
| Oct 17, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake | 45 min |
| Oct 17, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 50 min |
| Oct 17, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 55 min |
| Oct 17, 1:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike | 39 min |
| Oct 17, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 35 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 460 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 5:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 10 more | 23 min |
| Oct 15, 10:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calcasieu, Cameron | 63 min |
| Oct 15, 11:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 16, 1:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafourche and 11 more | 94 min |
| Oct 16, 2:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Assumption, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 12 more | 95 min |
| Oct 16, 5:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Beauregard, Calcasieu and 22 more | 88 min |
| Oct 16, 5:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 16, 7:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | De Soto, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine and 1 more | 84 min |
| Oct 16, 10:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu and 27 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 16, 12:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 30 more | 96 min |
| Oct 16, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston and 13 more | 64 min |
| Oct 16, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupee and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 33 more | 83 min |
| Oct 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Assumption, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Cameron and 11 more | 26 min |
| Oct 16, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 9 more | 7 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.