The April 2, 2006 Tornado Outbreak was a series of tornadoes that occurred during the late afternoon and evening of April 2, 2006 in the central United States. It was the second major outbreak of 2006, in the same area that suffered considerable destruction in a previous outbreak on March 11 and March 12, as well as an outbreak on November 15, 2005. The most notable tornadoes of the outbreak struck northeastern Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel and West Tennessee, where several communities - including Marmaduke, Arkansas, Caruthersville, Missouri and Newbern, Tennessee suffered devastating damage from several tornadoes triggered from a supercell. In total, sixty-six tornadoes touched down across seven states, which is the most in a single day in 2006. In addition, there were over 850 total severe weather reports, including many reports of straight-line winds exceeding hurricane force and hail as large as softballs, which caused significant additional damage in a nine-state region.
The outbreak was a deadly one; there were a total of twenty-seven tornado-related deaths plus two other deaths from straight-line winds. It was the deadliest tornado outbreak in the United States since the May 2003 Tornado Outbreak Sequence in the first week of May 2003, which killed forty-eight people. Twenty-five of those deaths were caused by a single supercell thunderstorm which produced damaging and long lived tornadoes from north central Arkansas into northwest Tennessee. 72 homes completely destroyed and another 182 homes damaged in the Newbern area.
In memory of those who perished in the April 2, 2006 tornado:
Jerry Lamar Ables Stacy Ables (Forbes)
Sid Bruce
Estelle Horner Hickman
William Travis Hickman
Doreen Ina Hartell Hunt
Tyler Forbes Keierleber
Janie O'brien King
Jeremy Jackson Price
Jodi Price
Eddie Paul Sherron
Vicky S. Sherron
Lukas Allen Simpson
Wanda Taylor
Williams Taylor
Eldy Cardoza Ureste
I remember that if it was yesterday.. Stacy married my cousin Jerry Ables and she had a son and a daughter. They all lived in Newbern Tennessee. On that day her daughter went to church with her grandmother and stayed at her house for the day. And that afetrnoon a tornado hit their town with out any warning and Stacy,Jerry and the baby was at home. By the time they knew what was happening it was to late, they all 3 hide in a closet and the tornado ripped apart their home with them in it and carried them out in the field. Were later the were found still together in the closet 1/2 mile from their home once was. The only thing left where their home was, laid a shoe from the baby.. I will never forget it.... it was so sad to see what was once there, a home and family of 4 now only 1 with no home,mom,dad or brother..R.I.P. m.g
Marjorie Pirofalo (Gomez)
I remember that if it was yesterday.. Stacy married my cousin Jerry Ables and she had a son and a daughter.They all lived in Newbern Tennessee. On that day her daughter went to church with her grandmother and stayed
at her house for the day. And that afetrnoon a tornado hit their town with out any warning and Stacy,Jerry and the baby was at home. By the time they knew what was happening it was to late, they all 3 hide in a closet and the tornado ripped apart their home with them in it and carried them out in the field. Were later the were found still together in the closet 1/2 mile from their home once was. The only thing left where their home was, laid a shoe from the baby.. I will never forget it.... it was so sad to see what was once there, a home and family of 4 now only 1 with no home,mom,dad or brother..R.I.P.
m.g