Friday, April 2, 2010

April 2nd Tornado Outbreak: 4 years ago

The following image is of a tornado just to the north of Hopkinsville Kentucky on the night of April 2nd 2006.

Today is the third year anniversary of the April 2nd 2006 Tornado Outbreak.

This outbreak features a handful of tornadoes in West KY and West Mid TN, and also a serial derecho across Northwest Kentucky.

A F-3 crossed Christian and Todd counties and impacted the north part of Hopkinsville, and the communities of Allegre and Sinking Fort as well. Around 30 injuries and 38 million dollars of damage occurred in those two counties luckily no fatalities occurred.

A F-1 caused damage across the Camden TN area of Benton County TN.

A brief F-0 tornado touched down in Gage KY on the Ballard/McCracken county line.

Widespread wind damage occurred across Henderson and Owensboro due to a Serial Derecho.

Sadly there were fatalities in West TN, Thankfully Mid TN and West KY got spared that aspect of the event, still hold prayers for some of the victims in Dyer, and Gibson Counties in West TN.

Links for more details.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pah/?n=apr0206event
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/060402_rpts.html
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/?n=stormsurvey04022006

Tornado Warnings for the Two main Supercells
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/#2006-O-NEW-KOHX-TO-W-0021
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/#2006-O-NEW-KPAH-TO-W-0053
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/#2006-O-NEW-KPAH-TO-W-0054

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