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Tornado Watch 124
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 13, 2022, 3:35 PM CDT for Hardin County, Massac County, Pope County, Illinois; 19 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2022, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2022, 6:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 22 counties
Hardin County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 16 min |
| Apr 13, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall | 56 min |
| Apr 13, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 26 min |
| Apr 13, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 27 min |
| Apr 13, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Marshall | 32 min |
| Apr 13, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Trigg | 31 min |
| Apr 13, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, McLean and 4 more | 56 min |
| Apr 13, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Trigg | 39 min |
| Apr 13, 5:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 42 min |
| Apr 13, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | McLean, Muhlenberg | 32 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1286 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 7:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Pike, Scott | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 10:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Jackson, Johnson, Monroe, Perry and 6 more | 56 min |
| Apr 13, 11:16 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clinton, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 10 more | 118 min |
| Apr 13, 1:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford and 21 more | 87 min |
| Apr 13, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 9 more | 53 min |
| Apr 13, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barren, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 22 more | 117 min |
| Apr 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 23 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 5:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Gallatin, Oldham, Owen, Trimble | 114 min |
| Apr 12, 9:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 63 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.