page_title: Easter Week 2006 tornado outbreak sequence
section_title: Meteorological synopsis
hierarchical_section_title: Easter Week 2006 tornado outbreak sequence / Meteorological synopsis
caption_attribution_description: English: Tornado damage near Anomosa, Iowa
context_page_description: The Easter Week 2006 tornado outbreak sequence was a tornado outbreak sequence during the days leading up to Easter and continued into the first week after Easter. It was the third major outbreak of April 2006, which had been an unusually busy month for tornado activity.
context_section_description: On April 13, a complex of severe thunderstorms formed in eastern Iowa, bringing many reports of large hail along with unexpected reports of strong tornadoes, some with debris. The worst impacts were felt in the Iowa City area, where significant damage and numerous injuries were reported, in addition to at least one death across the region.
  Another supercell developed on April 14 across western Indiana, producing a few tornadoes; although, nothing very serious was actually reported. That system moved eastward over the Mid-Atlantic States on April 15, but no tornadoes were reported there.
  While the first system moved eastward, a second system developed over the Upper Midwest and tracked across the Midwest between April 15 and 16. This new system produced 40 reported tornadoes, several of which have been damaging; however, no fatalities were reported from the second system.
  That system then tracked into the Mid-Atlantic on April 17 and was mostly a straight-line wind event, even though there were a handful of new tornadoes reported across the region.
  A third system developed on April 18 and brought even more severe weather, this time farther south in the lower Midwest, primarily in Missouri. There were several more tornadoes reported from this one.
  The severe weather activity finally ended on April 19 across the South.
  The back side of this system produced heavy snow and blizzard conditions over the High Plains.
caption: F1 damage to a farm near Anamosa, Iowa.
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