Epidemic Soundtime and Time Again 105
April 2, 2006
Tornado Outbreak
Summary and Images
Last updated on April 11, 2006 at 2:xvi am
Tornado near Caruthersville, Missouri. Photo by Scott McCord.
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...SUMMARY... April 2, 2006 was a dark solar day in the Mid-South's weather history. That afternoon and evening, a series of powerful tornadoes moved through eastern Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel, and west Tennessee. The tornadoes killed 26 people and injured over 200. Over ane,200 homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed. This page contains a brief summary of the tornadoes and their impacts. PUBLIC Information Statement NATIONAL Atmospheric condition SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 310 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006 ...AN UPDATE ON THE FINAL ASSESSMENTS OF THE TORNADO Harm FROM THE MAJOR TORNADO OUTBREAK ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH FROM THE AFTERNOON OF APRIL 2 2006 TO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS OF APRIL 3 2006... ...CHANGES WERE MADE TO ADD IN A SEPARATE F3 TORNADO EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM CARUTHERSVILLE TO NEWBERN INSTEAD OF ONE CONTINUOUS TORNADO... NATIONAL Atmospheric condition SERVICE PERSONNEL IN MEMPHIS Forth WITH COORDINATION FROM THE NATIONAL Conditions SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK Have COMPLETED THEIR SURVEY OF THE TORNADO DAMAGE ACROSS EASTERN ARKANSAS...THE BOOTHEEL OF MISSOURI AND NORTHWEST TENNESSEE. IN TOTAL 5 F3 TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN Beyond THE MIDSOUTH. THE Get-go TORNADO WAS THE LONGEST TORNADO Rail ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH AND IMPACTED RANDOLPH...LAWRENCE...AND GREENE COUNTIES IN ARKANSAS... Likewise Every bit DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. IT APPEARS THAT THE PARENT SUPERCELL Showtime PRODUCED A TORNADO THAT TOUCHED DOWN Only WEST OF RAVENDEN IN Abrupt Canton ARKANSAS And then MOVED INTO RAVENDEN (LAWRENCE County) Equally AN F0 TORNADO WITH A 200 Thou PATH. SEVERAL WOODEN AND Metallic SHEDS WERE DESTROYED...ALONG WITH A ROOF OF AN OLDER House BLOWN OFF. FROM There THE TORNADO APPEARED TO MOVE THROUGH IMBODEN AND THEN SKIPPED ON ITS Style TO JUST Due south OF POCAHONTAS. F1 Harm WAS OBSERVED ONE MILE Southward OF POCAHONTAS NEAR Road 67 AND ARKANSAS xc...WITH A WIDTH OF 300 YARDS. SEVERAL HOMES WERE DAMAGED WITH ONE ROOF COMPLETELY GONE. FROM THAT Bespeak THE TORNADO REMAINED ON THE GROUND AS Information technology MOVED EAST TOWARD LAFE...WITH By and large F0 TO F1 DAMAGE OBSERVED ALONG THE PATH. AS THE TORNADO MOVED INTO LAFE IT BEGAN TO WIND UP AND PRODUCED F1 TO F3 DAMAGE UNTIL THE TORNADO REACHED MARMADUKE. IN MARMADUKE THE TORNADO REACHED MAXIMUM WINDS OF 200 MPH...A Stiff END F3 Forth WITH WIDTH OF HALF A MILE TO Iii QUARTERS OF A MILE. SOME OF THE DAMAGE IN MARMADUKE INCLUDED NUMEROUS HOUSES DESTROYED...Along WITH 15 RAILROAD CARS WERE LIFTED OFF THE TRACK AND Blown OVER. At that place WERE fifty KNOWN INJURIES WITH 5 OF THOSE INJURED IN Disquisitional CONDITION. FIVE MILES Due east OF MARMADUKE...2 WELL Synthetic HOMES WERE FLATTENED AND A NEW Machine THROWN eighty YARDS. AS THE TORNADO Continued E...IT APPEARED TO WEAKEN IN STRENGTH TO A F1 WITH JUST SCATTERED DEBRIS AND LARGE Ability POLES Down ALTHOUGH THE SIZE OF THE SYSTEM REMAINED LARGE AS It PASSED THROUGH DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT COUNTIES. THE DAMAGE PATH APPEARED About Three QUARTERS OF A MILE Wide AT Fourth dimension ESPECIALLY AS IT APPROACHED CARUTHERSVILLE MISSOURI. AS THE TORNADO MOVED INTO THE TOWN OF Humbug MISSOURI...IT STRENGTHENED BACK TO A F2 TORNADO. In that location WERE 2 INJURED AND 1 ELDERLY LADY KILLED AS THEY WERE TRYING TO RUN FROM THE TORNADO. THE TORNADO Continued INTO CARUTHERSVILLE Equally A F3 TORNADO AND PASSED THROUGH THE SOUTHERN One-half OF THE CITY AND DAMAGED Almost EVERY Abode AND MANY WERE RENDERED Un-INHABITABLE BEFORE DISSIPATING AT THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. At that place WERE 64 INJURIES...ALTHOUGH NO FATALITIES. AS THE TORNADO PASSED INTO THE City THE WIDTH OF THE TORNADO WAS HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE WIDE AS IT PASSED OVER I-55. A SECOND TORNADO FORMED JUST EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN DYER COUNTY. THIS TORNADO TRAVELED 18 MILES BEFORE DISSIPATING Merely EAST OF NEWBERN TENNESSEE. THIS STRONG F3 TORNADO HAD WINDS AROUND 200 MPH. NUMEROUS HOMES WERE DESTROYED WITH ADDITIONAL Belongings Harm NOTED. At that place WERE xvi FATALITIES WITH THIS Storm. THIS TORNADO WAS FIRST BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN A CONTINUATION OF THE CARUTHERSVILLE TORNADO...BUT Farther EVALUATION HAS DETERMINED THAT IT WAS A Carve up TORNADO THAT ORIGINATED FROM THE SAME SUPERCELL. A THIRD TORNADO THAT ORIGINATED FROM THE First SUPERCELL TOUCHED Downward JUST EAST OF YORKVILLE TENNESSEE (GIBSON COUNTY) AND MOVED THROUGH DYER AND THEN THROUGH BRADFORD. TORNADIC Harm WAS RATED A F1 ON THE FUJITA SCALE WITH UP TO F3 Damage IN BRADFORD TENNESSEE...Peculiarly ON TAYLOR Road Just EAST OF HIGHWAY 45. THE STORM CONTINUED E THROUGH WEAKLEY AND CARROLL COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE. Later on THE TORNADO PASSED THROUGH BRADFORD IN GIBSON Canton There WAS SPORADIC Damage Beyond THE NORTHERN One-half OF CARROLL COUNTY WITH WORST AFFECTED AREAS 5 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF MCKENZIE. DAMAGE Hither INCLUDED NUMEROUS Copse DOWNS...GRAIN SILOS DESTROYED AND POWER LINES DOWNED. A RATING OF F1 ON THE FUJITA Calibration WAS GIVEN TO THIS TORNADO. Impairment Connected INTO BENTON County. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS DETAILS ON THE DAMAGE TRACK Due east OF CARROLL County. THE FOURTH TORNADO WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A SECOND SUPERCELL THAT HAD FORMED FROM THE ORIGINAL SUPERCELL AND Then Fabricated A QUICK RIGHT Mitt TURN AND TOUCHED Downward JUST SOUTH OF THE OBION County LINE AND Simply NORTH OF RUTHERFORD. THIS TORNADO Then MOVED SOUTHEAST TRACKING APPROXIMATELY x MILES AND DISSIPATED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF China GROVE ROAD AND HIGHWAY 105. THIS TORNADO WAS RATED Every bit A F3 ON THE FUJITA SCALE WITH WINDS ESTIMATED AT 200 MPH AND A WIDTH OF UP TO ONE One-half MILE. SEVERAL HOMES WERE DESTROYED WITH MANY AUTOMOBILES TOSSED AND THROWN INTO FIELDS. EIGHT FATALITIES WERE REPORTED IN BRADFORD WITH APPROXIMATELY 50 INJURIES. A FIFTH TORNADO BEGAN IN WOODRUFF Canton IN ARKANSAS four MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORTON OR Virtually A MILE N OF THE PENROSE Customs IN WOODRUFF COUNTY AND Concluded 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARKIN IN CROSS County. THE TORNADO REMAINED IN WOODRUFF COUNTY FOR LESS THAN HALF A MILE AND And so MOVED INTO CROSS County. THIS TORNADO WENT ON TO STRIKE THE FITZGERALD CROSSING COMMUNITY Due south OF WYNNE AND VILLAGE CREEK Land PARK. A NUMBER OF HOUSES WERE DESTROYED OR DAMAGED Along WITH MOBILE HOMES...FARM SHOPS...AND GRAIN SILOS. HUNDREDS OF TREES AND Power LINES WERE DOWNED. SEVERAL PARKED EIGHTEEN WHEELERS AND CARS WERE OVERTURNED. A RATING OF F3 WAS GIVEN TO THE TORNADO WITH ESTIMATED WINDS OF 200 MPH. THERE WERE v INJURIES IN CROSS Canton. AFTER EXITING THE PARKIN Expanse...F0 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED INTO CRITTENDEN COUNTY BEFORE LIFTING JUST EAST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. THANKS TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE Stone FOR THEIR HELP WITH THE PATH OF THE Storm. THE SIXTH TORNADO ORIGINATED FROM A SUPERCELL THAT MOVED ACROSS SOUTH HAYWOOD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE. A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST W OF BROWNSVILLE TENNESSEE. THIS TORNADO WAS ESTIMATED TO Exist AN F2 ON THE FUJITA SCALE WITH A WIDTH OF 30 YARDS AND LENGTH OF THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE. THIS TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN THE HICKORY TRAIL SUBDIVISION AND OCCURRED Around 1030 PM. In that location WAS PARTIAL ROOF Harm TO APPROXIMATELY A DOZEN HOMES. I Home WAS MOVED OFF OF ITS FOUNDATION WHILE ANOTHER Abode WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED WITH ITS Debris SWEPT CLEAN OFF OF THE FOUNDATION. FORTUNATELY THERE WERE NO INJURIES. THE SURVEY TEAM ALSO NOTED AREAS OF STRAIGHT-LINE Current of air DAMAGE Nigh THE TOWNS OF WHITEVILLE...TOONE...SILERTON AND DANCYVILLE IN HARDEMAN...FAYETTE...SOUTHERN HAYWOOD...AND MCNAIRY COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE. THE Damage OCCURRED AROUND 730 PM. A FEW HOMES RECEIVED Small DAMAGE WHILE IN THE DANCYVILLE AREA...A MOBILE Dwelling THAT WAS TIED Downwardly WAS OVERTURNED. WINDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE IN Backlog OF 90 MPH Here. FUJITA TORNADIC DAMAGE Calibration F0.....60-73 MPH...Lite DAMAGE F1....73-112 MPH...MODERATE Damage F2...113-157 MPH...CONSIDERABLE Damage F3...158-206 MPH...Severe Impairment F4...207-260 MPH...DEVASTATING DAMAGE F5...261-318 MPH...INCREDIBLE DAMAGE $$ CJC/RJO/DNV/JEB/JFB/ZEI/DSV/ARS/JRA
Tornado Photos
Tornado south of Kennett, Missouri. Photo by Bill Page.
Tornado in Kennett, Missouri. Photos by Donald Jones.
Tornado in Kennett, MO.
Tornado in Kennett, MO.
Multiple tornadoes in Dunklin County, Missouri. Photo past Duncan Phenix.
Multiple tornadoes in Dunklin County, Missouri. Photograph by Duncan Phenix.
Radar Animations
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Overview Radar Loop
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A new window volition open upon clicking. The animation is rather large (seven.8 mb) and so please be patient. The time is from 4:48 pm through eleven:58 pm on Apr two, 2006.
Northeast Arkansas and part of the Missouri Bootheel
0.v Reflectivity overlooking Northeast Arkansas and part of the Missouri Bootheel. Time begins at iv:48 pm and ends at 7:00 pm. Images are seperated by v minutes.
0.5 SRM across the same area as above with the aforementioned time frame.
A closer view of the radar over the Missouri Bootheel
0.5 Reflectivity from roughly 7:08 pm to seven:38 pm.
0.5 SRM from the same fourth dimension frame as above.
Northwest Tennessee
0.5 Reflectivity for storms beyond Northwest Tennessee. The time begins at vii:25 pm and ends at ix:31 pm. Once again, each image is seperated past 5 minutes.
0.5 SRM from the same area and fourth dimension frame as higher up.
Cross Canton Arkansas
0.5 Reflectivity overlooking Cross Canton Arkansas. Time begins at 6:01 pm and ends at 7:fifty pm. The blackness dot to the right center of the image is the location of the radar (Millington, TN).
0.5 SRM from the aforementioned fourth dimension frame as higher up covering the same area.
Source: https://www.weather.gov/meg/tornado_outbreak_060402
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