Tornadoes · United States · Missouri · 2006

F1 tornado, Green Ridge, Missouri, March 30, 2006

Name: F1 tornado, Green Ridge, Missouri, March 30, 2006
Start: 2006-03-31T02:28:00.000Z
Location: Green Ridge, Missouri

This F1 tornado ran 13.6 miles across Pettis County on March 30, 2006, touching down at 8:28 PM CST and reaching 75 yards wide. It killed 1 person, and did $450,000 of property damage.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mphthis tornado
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: F1
Date: March 30, 2006
Touchdown: 8:28 PM CST (02:28 UTC)
Path length: 13.6 miles (21.9 km)
Path width: 75 yards (69 m)
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $450,000
County: Pettis County
Touchdown point: 38.630, -93.430
Lift-off point: 38.750, -93.230
Record number: 198

What the Weather Service recorded

F0 tornado crossed from Johnson county into Pettis county 5 miles west of Green Ridge at 2024 CST. The tornado dissipated 2 miles northwest of Green Ridge at 2027 CST. No significant damage was observed.

Tornado touched down at 2028 CST 2 miles northwest of green Ridge producing damage to trees. The tornado traveled northeast and crossed Highway 50 just west of Sedalia. It produced high end F0 damage to a Morton Building and to a farmstead. Low end F1 damage was noted to a home 3 miles north of Sedalia...just west of Highway 65...where a modular home lost its roof and a large calenabra on a broadcast tower was bent. The tornado damaged a total of 57 homes, with one being completely destroyed. The tornado lifted after this at 2042 CST. A 66 year old man injured in the tornado, died from his injuries on June 15th.

The deaths

1 direct deaths are recorded for this tornado, each with what Storm Data knows of it.

Age	Sex	Where	Kind
66	M	Permanent Home	Direct

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST, 4 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
345 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

.DISCUSSION...

FOREMOST FORECAST CONCERN IS WITH ONGOING CONVECTION FROM EASTERN
KANSAS THROUGH WESTERN MISSOURI. THE FIRST LINE OF STORMS IS
CURRENTLY SHIFTING EAST INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF MISSOURI...WITH
INDIVIDUAL STORM MOTION TO THE NORTHEAST. THESE STORMS HAVE THE
POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING.
A BIT FURTHER WEST...DISCRETE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED AHEAD OF THE
DRYLINE IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...AND MAY HAVE THE BETTER POTENTIAL FOR
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS..AND TORNADIC ACTIVITY. FINALLY...A LINE
OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS ORGANIZED ALONG THE DRYLINE WHICH CONTINUES TO
ADVANCE EAST THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL BE THE FINAL LINE OF STORMS
THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT...AND ALSO HAVE THE
POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE.

ANOTHER FORECAST ELEMENT OF NOTE IS WINDS TONIGHT. 60KT LOW LEVEL
JET WILL SHIFT EAST ACROSS MISSOURI. AM NOT EXPECTING TO REACH WIND
ADVISORY CRITERIA ESPECIALLY WITH THE LOSS OF THE STRONGER DAYTIME
MIXING. HOWEVER...WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 35
MPH THROUGH THE EVENING...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF THE DRYLINE.
WINDS WILL SLACKEN A BIT ACROSS THE WESTERN FORECAST SECTION BUT
REMAIN GUSTY OVERNIGHT.

THE UPPER TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO ADVANCE NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT
TONIGHT AND CLOSE OFF AS IT PULLS AWAY TOWARD THE WESTERN GREAT
LAKES. AT THE SURFACE...THE COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM THE EXITING
SURFACE LOW WILL CLEAR THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES...WITH COOLER
TEMPERATURES TO FOLLOW TOMORROW. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO RECOVER
ALREADY ON SATURDAY AND MORESO ON SUNDAY AS WARMER AIR IS PUMPED
BACK TO THE AREA ON RETURNING SOUTHERLY WINDS.

THE BROADSCALE UPPER TROUGH WILL RELOAD OVER THE WEST FOR THE
WEEKEND...WITH ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROUGH TRACKING ACROSS THE NORTH
CENTRAL STATES. DEPENDING ON THE PRECISE TRACK OF THIS
FEATURE...THERE IS A POSSIBILITY FOR MORE SEVERE WEATHER ON SUNDAY.
A REPEAT OF THE RELOADING WESTERN TROUGH WILL OCCUR AGAIN EARLY NEXT
WEEK AND BRING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE
AREA WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY.

STOFLET

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION...

251 AM...
MORNING WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS THE EARLY STAGES OF WHAT WILL BE A
VERY ACTIVE WEATHER PERIOD BEGINNING TODAY AND LIKELY EXTENDING WELL
INTO NEXT WEEK. A DEEP UPPER TROUGH...CARVED OUT BY AT LEAST THREE
IDENTIFIABLE SHORTWAVES...WAS SITUATED OVER THE ROCKIES EARLY THIS
MORNING. THE MOST POTENT OF THESE SHORTWAVES WAS LIFTING INTO SW
COLORADO...AND DEEPENING RAPIDLY AHEAD OF A 100KT UPPER SPEED MAX
DIVING INTO THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. CORRESPONDING SURFACE LOW OVER
EASTERN COLORADO ALSO CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN THIS MORNING. FURTHER
EAST...A BROAD WARM SECTOR AIRMASS ACROSS THE PLAINS CONTINUED TO
UNDERGO RAPID MODIFICATION AS A 60 KT LOW LEVEL JET WAS TRANSPORTING
50F DEWPOINTS AS FAR NORTH AS SRN SOUTH DAKOTA...WITH NARROW TONGUE
OF 60F DEWPOINTS CROSSING THE RED RIVER.

DESPITE MODEL QPF OUTPUT...HAVING TROUBLE IDENTIFYING THE
ANTICIPATED FORCING MECHANISM FOR ELEVATED CONVECTION EARLY THIS
MORNING. 00Z SOUNDINGS DIDNT OFFER MUCH IN THE WAY OF WARM ADVECTION
POTENTIAL ALOFT...AND LOW LEVEL JET (ALBEIT QUITE STRONG) IS UNIFORM
ACROSS THE PLAINS. BROAD AREA OF ALTO-CUMULUS WILL NEED TO BE
WATCHED FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT TYPICALLY INITIAL SIGNS OF
DEVELOPMENT SHOULD HAVE MANIFESTED BY NOW. CURRENT THINKING IS TO
TREND DOWN POPS SIGNIFICANTLY FOR TODAY.

IN THE ABSENCE OF WIDESPREAD ELEVATED CONVECTION THIS MORNING...
POTENTIAL FOR INCREASED DESTABILIZATION CERTAINLY EXISTS. BACK EDGE
OF MID LEVEL CLOUD COVER OVER THE OK/TX PANHANDLES SHOULD CONTINUE
TO ROTATE NORTHWARD DURING THE DAY. ALTHOUGH LOW LEVEL STRATUS
CONTINUES TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE ACROSS THE PLAINS THIS
MORNING...STRONG LOW LEVEL FLOW AND SUFFICIENT HEATING WILL ALLOW
FOR AT LEAST PARTIAL SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON. CURRENTLY PROGGED
MAXES IN THE UPPER 60S/LOW 70S LOOK KOSHER...ACCOUNTING FOR SOME
SUNSHINE.

STRONG LOW LEVEL PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL ALLOW WINDS TO BECOME QUITE
GUSTY...BUT SHOULD REMAIN SHY OF ADVISORY CRITERIA. OF SOME CONCERN
IS THE LOW LEVEL EASTERLY FLOW WHICH REMAINS DOMINANT OVER MISSOURI
EARLY THIS MORNING. WHILE THIS WILL HAVE IMPORTANT CONNOTATIONS
LATER TODAY...IT HAS MAINTAINED DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 30S TO LOWER
40S AT PRESENT. HOWEVER...AS THE LOW LEVEL JET VEERS AROUND
DAYBREAK...RAPID MOISTURE INFLUX IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR ABOVE THE
BOUNDARY LAYER OVER ERN KS/WRN MO...WITH MECHANICAL MIXING TAKING
CARE OF THE LOW LEVELS.

WITH THAT SAID...DEEPENING SURFACE LOW OVER EASTERN COLORADO WILL
BEGIN TO MOVE ACROSS NRN KANSAS LATER THIS MORNING...WITH TRAILING
DRYLINE REACHING THE I-135 CORRIDOR BY 21Z. VIGOROUS CONVECTIVE
DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED AROUND THIS TIME FRAME AS STRONGLY DIFFLUENT
UPPER FLOW DEVELOPS IN RESPONSE TO SPEED MAX ROTATING BENEATH THE
UPPER LOW. MODEL SOUNDINGS CONTINUE TO DEPICT LARGE LOOPING
HODOGRAPHS WITH DEEP LAYER SHEAR VECTOR ORIENTED FAVORABLY ASKEW TO
THE N-S BOUNDARY...WITH DISCRETE SUPERCELLS EXPECTED. STRONG
ISALLOBARIC FORCING IS EXPECTED TO MAINTAIN AN EASTERLY COMPONENT TO
THE NEAR SURFACE FLOW...WHICH WHEN JUXTAPOSED WITH NEARLY 50 KNOTS
OF SWRLY 850MB FLOW...RESULTS IN ASTONISHING LOW LEVEL HELICITY
VALUES EXCEEDING 300 M2/S2. IN ADDITION... MOISTURE ADVECTION AND
DIMINISHING LATE AFTN INSOLATION PLACE LCL HEIGHTS VERY FAVORABLY IN
THE 1500-2000 FT RANGE. AS A RESULT...EVEN WITH MLCAPES ON THE ORDER
OF 1000-1500 J/KG...AN ENHANCED TORNADIC THREAT EXISTS ACROSS WRN
MO/ERN KS. STORM MOTION OF 230/40 KTS COMPARED WITH PROGGED BOUNDARY
MOVEMENT OF 25 KTS SHOULD MAINTAIN DISCRETE STORMS THAT PROPAGATE
AWAY FROM THEIR INITIATION POINT. STEEPENING LAPSE RATES IMMEDIATELY
AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING LOW CORE WOULD ALSO FAVOR VERY LARGE HAIL
AS WELL EARLY ON.

AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW BEGINS TO EJECT TO THE NORTHEAST DURING THE
EVENING...DEEP LAYER SHEAR VECTOR WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY PARALLEL
TO THE LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY. THIS...COMBINED WITH DIMINISHING
INSTABILITY DOWNSTREAM...SUGGESTS THAT THE EVOLUTION INTO A SQUALL
LINE IS LIKELY OVER WRN MO. CONTINUED DEEP LAYER FORCING COMBINED
WITH VERY STRONG AND INCREASINGLY UNIDIRECTIONAL LOW/MID LEVEL FLOW
WILL PROMOTE A DAMAGING WIND THREAT ACROSS THE EASTERN TWO/THIRDS OF
THE CWA.

IF THERES A SILVER LINING...THE SEVERE THREAT WILL BE LIMITED IN
DURATION DUE TO THE ACCELERATION OF THIS SYSTEM...WITH THE CLEARING
DRYLINE/SURFACE TROUGH EXPECTED TO BE EAST OF THE AREA AROUND
MIDNIGHT. IN ADDITION...THE POST-FRONTAL AIRMASS WILL REMAIN MILD
AND GENERALLY CLOUD-FREE SHOULD THERE BE ANY POST-EVENT DAMAGE
CLEANUP REQUIRED ON FRIDAY...WITH HIGHS IN THE 60S.

UNFORTUNATELY...THE OVERALL UPPER PATTERN WILL HOLD STEADY THROUGH
THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS...ALLOWING THE WESTERN TROUGH TO RELOAD TWICE
THROUGH THE PERIOD. CONFIDENCE IS INCREASING FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF
SEVERE WEATHER SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY IN THE FORM OF A NOCTURNAL MCS
WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR AFTERNOON REDEVELOPMENT. MEDIUM RANGE
SOLUTIONS ALSO CONTINUE TO SHOW ANOTHER VERY POTENT SYSTEM IN THE
OFFING NEXT WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY.

BOOKBINDER

&&

.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.

WFO EAX

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 1:03 PM CST, 7 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
103 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-311200-
ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE-
JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH-GENTRY-HARRISON-MERCER-
PUTNAM-SCHUYLER-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB-DAVIESS-GRUNDY-SULLIVAN-ADAIR-
BUCHANAN-CLINTON-CALDWELL-LIVINGSTON-LINN MO-MACON-PLATTE-CLAY-
RAY-CARROLL-CHARITON-RANDOLPH-JACKSON-LAFAYETTE-SALINE-HOWARD-
CASS-JOHNSON MO-PETTIS-COOPER-BATES-HENRY-
103 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST...NORTH CENTRAL
AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AS WELL AS EXTREME EASTERN KANSAS.

...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND THIS EVENING...

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A DRY LINE FROM WEST OF SALINA TO NEAR
WICHITA. STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

FOR THIS AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD INTO EASTERN KANSAS
AND WESTERN MISSOURI. SOME HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND GUSTS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 4 PM. THROUGH LATE
AFTERNOON...THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE WEST OF A LINE FROM
BETHANY...TO LIBERTY...TO BUTLER.

EARLY THIS EVENING...A LINE OF DANGEROUS STORMS WILL MOVE INTO
EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI. BETWEEN 5 PM AND 9 PM...STORMS
WILL BE CAPABLE OF HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS...WIND GUSTS IN
EXCESS OF 70 MPH...AND TORNADOES. THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES WILL BE
THE GREATEST IN EASTERN KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI...MAINLY WEST
OF A LINE FROM MARYVILLE TO OAK GROVE TO BUTLER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SUNDAY...TUESDAY NIGHT...AND
WEDNESDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS A POSSIBILITY WITH THESE ROUNDS OF STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED BY LATE AFTERNOON OVER EASTERN
KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI. ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED OVER
CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL...AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI BY EARLY THIS EVENING.

KOCH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 30, 7:54 PM CST, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
754 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0751 PM     HAIL             URICH                   38.46N 94.00W
03/30/2006  M0.75 INCH       HENRY              MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            0.75 INCH HAIL NEAR THE HENRY AND CASS COUNTY LINE

&&

MD

Local storm report, Mar 30, 8:05 PM CST, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
805 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0804 PM     HAIL             4 N CHILHOWEE           38.64N 93.86W
03/30/2006  M0.88 INCH       JOHNSON            MO   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

MD

Local storm report, Mar 30, 8:13 PM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
813 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0720 PM     TSTM WND GST     BARNARD                 40.18N 94.82W
03/30/2006  E60 MPH          NODAWAY            MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0720 PM     HAIL             BARNARD                 40.18N 94.82W
03/30/2006  E0.75 INCH       NODAWAY            MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Mar 30, 8:19 PM CST, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
819 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0816 PM     HAIL             2 E CHILHOWEE           38.59N 93.82W
03/30/2006  M1.75 INCH       JOHNSON            MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

MD

Local storm report, Mar 30, 8:21 PM CST, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
821 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     TORNADO          6 W HATFIELD            40.53N 94.26W
03/30/2006                   HARRISON           MO   STORM CHASER

            POWER FLASHES IN DISTANCE

&&

MD

Local storm report, Mar 30, 8:23 PM CST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY/PLEASANT HILL MO
823 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0820 PM     TORNADO          6 S WHITEMAN AFB        38.65N 93.55W
03/30/2006                   JOHNSON            MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

MD

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Topeka, KS (KTOP), 00:00Z

2.5 hours before the tornado, 203 km from the path. March 31, 2006.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1075 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 1307 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 8.9
0-3 km lapse rate: 7.7 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

Sedalia (DMO), 14 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
00:00 UTC

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 02:27 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of March 30, 2006

25 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
March 30	1:25 PM CST	F0	Reno, KS	3.0	50		$80,000
March 30	2:13 PM CST	F1	Marion, KS	6.0	75	1	$70,000
March 30	2:18 PM CST	F0	Stephens, OK	0.5	50
March 30	2:23 PM CST	F0	Butler, NE	0.5	440
March 30	2:29 PM CST	F0	Colfax, NE	0.5	440
March 30	3:35 PM CST	F0	Saunders, NE	0.3	100		$50,000
March 30	3:50 PM CST	F0	Wilson, KS	2.5	50
March 30	3:55 PM CST	F0	Woodbury, IA	0.5	100		$100,000
March 30	4:00 PM CST	F0	Sarpy, NE	3.0	150
March 30	4:04 PM CST	F1	Brown, KS	3.0	100		$350,000
March 30	4:06 PM CST	F2	Montgomery, KS	16.0	125	1	$1.0 million
March 30	5:35 PM CST	F1	Wilson, KS	10.0	75		$20,000
March 30	5:57 PM CST	F0	Union, IA	0.2	30		$40,000
March 30	6:00 PM CST	F0	Woodson, KS	0.1	50
March 30	6:00 PM CST	F0	Union, IA	0.1	25
March 30	6:03 PM CST	F0	Allen, KS	0.5	50
March 30	6:04 PM CST	F0	Dallas, IA	0.1	25
March 30	7:10 PM CST	F2	Andrew, MO	5.0	800	8	$800,000
March 30	7:15 PM CST	F0	Cooke, TX	0.1	15
March 30	8:10 PM CST	F0	Harrison, MO	1.0	50
March 30	8:20 PM CST	F0	Johnson, MO	9.0	50		$10,000
March 30	8:30 PM CST	F0	Grayson, TX	0.1	15
March 30	8:36 PM CST	F0	Grayson, TX	0.1	10		$10,000
March 30	10:55 PM CST	F1	Pike, IL	4.5	200
March 30	11:10 PM CST	F1	Pike, IL	2.7	250

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.