April 2nd 2006 3 years ago from yesterday.

Monday April 2nd is the first anniversary of the Christian County Tornado Outbreak. This an outbreak of severe thunderstorms, supercells, and a serieal Derecho.

1) The atmosphere on April 2nd 2006 was favorable for tornado and severe thunderstorm development. There was amazing wind shear from a intense low. Near 80 degree air was in the area and a powerful cold front was behind the low. With wind shear and instability pretty good the Storm Prediction Center issued a Moderate Risk for western Kentucky surrounded by a slight risk for the rest of middle Tennessee. Look at the link for the for the first day 1 outlook issued http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/archive/2006/day1otlk_20060402_1200.html

Sunlight and heating occurred during the afternoon allowed for the first sotmrs to form 3 and 4pm around middle Tennessee where wind reports were rrecieved. Later that afternoon around 5 supercells exploded in Missouri and to the north of the supercells a huge line decorated with supercells and bow echos. This line will produce wind damage in St Louis, All of Southern and Central Indiana, Owensboro and Henderson kentucky through the bluegrass a bunch of tornadoes were reported in the derecho too.

The Christian County tornado was spawned by long supercells that didn't believe in dying over till they caused grief and damage. One supercell was the tri-state one it went through Arkansas the Missouri boothill striking Carthursville with a devastating hit and went through Bradford Tennessee inculding Dyer and Gibson counties this one had a high death toll and miles of destruction. Carthursville and Bradford look like world war two battlesites after this and it moved to Camden to produce a f-1 tornado Camden Tennessee had tornadoes near by on Nov.15th 2005 and will see more 5 days later. Another supercell formed in Sikeston Missouri this storm developed rotation and went form Sikeston Missouri through Paduach produced a F-0 tornado on the Ballard/Mccracken county line moved through Calvert City with hail, wind, and a funnel cloud. Passed 4 miles north of Hopkinsville produced two F-3 tornadoes continued into Todd County which Allegrie area was damging pretty good and the Clifty. Ended in Northern logan County when it produced a quick F-1 in the rural Logan county than died off. In Christian County 28 injuries were reported. 35 million dollars of damage done a popular Christian county symbol sinking fort church was destroyed, many homes were heavily damaging, many people had to stay in hotels because of the insurance. Todd County get some good damage in rural areas but not near as great as it was in Christian County. Neither county was declared a federal disaster area so individual loans had to be taken out this caused grief and caused people to live cheaply in hotels. When Tennessee got hit hard with tornadoes hope for Federal assistance decreased. The tornado started 3 miles NNE of Gracey in Sinking Fort heavily damaging the community than went through busy country neighborhood on the northern outskirts of Hopkinsville and cut power to the whole city. Homes were destroyed or heavily damaged if in the path of the 185mph wind gust tornado. The first one lifted 6 miles NNE of Hopkinsville than the 2nd one appered and continued ot cause damage form Greenville Road and into Todd Country will the tornado struck rural land just a mile or two to the north of communities like Clifty, Sharon Grove, and Allegrie. Thanks to the NWS PADUCAH FOR A 20 minute lead time from when the tornado hit the Sinking Fort church and a longer lead time for Todd County. No deaths were caused in this tornado although several injuries and a lot of property loss occurred. Thanks to all volunteers and meteorologists and everyone who helped out during the April 2nd Tornado outbreak and praise god that no one in Christian or Todd County died and thanks for everyone helping the unlucky across the country on this day and during the Spring Break 2006 Tornado Episodes of the 2nd and the 7th.

Here are several links about April 2nd 2006 tornado outbreak. including more in depth about storms in Tennessee and Kentucky. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pah/?n=apr0206event http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/surveys/ss040206.php http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/?n=2april06 http://www.ksdk.com/news/gallery/photogallery.aspx?gid=94733&pid=2 http://www.srh.noaa.gov/meg/events/April2006/index.htm http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060402_rpts.html http://www.kentuckynewera.com/

-5,9 Steven Devine sources are the Storm pRediction Center and all links above