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This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.

{{StormWatch|event=current tornado outbreak
|time=1:00 am [[Central Daylight Time|CDT]] (1800 UTC)
|date=[[April 7]]
|watch information=PDS [[tornado watch]]es are in effect for parts of [[Alabama]], [[Arkansas]], [[Indiana]], [[Illinois]], [[Kentucky]], [[Louisiana]], [[Mississippi]], [[Missouri]] and [[Tennessee]]. '''This is an extremely dangerous situation'''}}

April 6-7, 2006 Tornado Outbreak

Type	Tornado outbreak
Duration	April 6-present, 2006
Tornadoes confirmed	21 reported
Max. rating1	F? tornado
Duration of tornado outbreak2	ongoing
Fatalities	0
Damage	Not yet available
1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale 2Time from first tornado to last tornado

The April 6-7, 2006 Tornado Outbreak is a developing major tornado outbreak in the Central United States that began on April 6, 2006 and is currently underway.

It is the third major outbreak of 2006, hot on the heels of a major outbreak on April 2.

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a high risk for severe weather for April 7. Conditions are favorable for an extremely strong tornado outbreak.

Activity was not as great as expected on April 6, with only 21 tornadoes reported, mostly in Kansas. Several were reported to have been damaging, but no fatalities and only a few injuries were reported.

The main area of concern on April 7 is across the South Central United States, from the Ohio Valley south to the Gulf of Mexico and from the lower Mississippi Valley to Georgia.

Reported tornadoes

April 6 event

F#	Location	County	Time (UTC)	Path length	Damage
Oklahoma
F?	SW of Pawhuska	Osage	2049		Brief touchdown in the Osage Nation.
F?	N of Enterprise	Haskell, McIntosh	0024		Tornado touched down in the Eufaula Lake area. Damage reported to the Eufaula Dam.
Kansas
F?	SW of Manchester	Ottawa	2100		Brief touchdown reported.
F?	SE of Bennington	Saline	2103		Tornado touched down in a rural area, destroying at least one outbuilding.
F?	Manchester	Dickinson	2111		Touchdown reported in the town. Damage unknown.
F?	Clay Center area	Clay	2114		Long tracked tornado through Clay County. Damage reported to several houses.
F?	Palmer	Washington	2204		Tornado caught in the south part of Washington County.
F?	Hanover area	Washington	2230		Debris cloud visible. Tornado on ground for 5 minutes.
F?	NW of Marysville	Marshall	2234		Tornado reported coming in and out of the clouds.
F?	S of Independence	Montgomery	2255		Large tornado reported in the area.
F?	W of Dennis	Labette	2320		Brief touchdown reported.
F?	W of Chetopa	Labette	0014		Severe damage reported in a mobile home park. At least three people were injured.
Nebraska
F?	Beatrice	Gage	2251		Reported to be a large and dangerous multiple vortex tornado.
Missouri
F?	NE of Asbury	Jasper	0055		Large and dangerous tornado being reported in the area. Damage has been reported.

April 7 event

F#	Location	County	Time (UTC)	Path length	Damage
Tennessee
F?	SW of McKenzie	Carroll	1737		Tornado sighted by local spotters.
F?	N of Camden	Benton	1745		Reported by county highway department. Unconfirmed tornado.
F?	Parker's Cross Roads	Henderson	1833		Tornado spotted on the ground.

See also

• List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
• Tornadoes of 2006

External links

• Storm Prediction Center - for updates on the situation
• Stormtrack Forums - for reports by storm chasers and photographs of the tornadoes