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Tornado Watch 125

April 13, 2022Clark County, Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana; 29 counties in Kentucky; 26 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 13, 2022, 6:01 PM EDT for Clark County, Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana; 29 counties in Kentucky; 26 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2022, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2022, 10:07 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 58 counties

Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 10%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson and 1 more	46 min
Apr 13, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Hancock, Logan, Ohio	41 min
Apr 13, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Allen, Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren	37 min
Apr 13, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner	47 min
Apr 13, 7:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	34 min
Apr 13, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Breckinridge, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, Ohio and 1 more	44 min
Apr 13, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Wayne	56 min
Apr 13, 7:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, Hart	34 min
Apr 13, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Allen, Barren, Simpson, Warren	33 min
Apr 13, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	27 min
Apr 13, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys	34 min
Apr 13, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Barren, Bullitt, Edmonson, Grayson, Green, Hardin and 5 more	44 min
Apr 13, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Harrison	34 min
Apr 13, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Maury, Sumner and 1 more	44 min
Apr 13, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury	41 min
Apr 13, 8:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Nelson, Washington	25 min
Apr 13, 8:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby	18 min
Apr 13, 8:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer, Woodford	28 min
Apr 13, 8:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Oldham, Shelby	34 min
Apr 13, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Adair, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland, Green, Marion and 5 more	33 min
Apr 13, 8:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson, Marion, Mercer, Washington	33 min
Apr 13, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Anderson, Boyle, Franklin, Henry, Mercer, Nelson and 6 more	39 min
Apr 13, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Cannon, Davidson, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner and 3 more	38 min
Apr 13, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Giles, Marshall, Maury and 2 more	36 min
Apr 13, 8:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Williamson	36 min
Apr 13, 8:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Scott, Shelby	12 min
Apr 13, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Putnam and 4 more	36 min
Apr 13, 9:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Warren	34 min
Apr 13, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Rutherford and 4 more	33 min
Apr 13, 9:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Cannon, Coffee	19 min
Apr 13, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Clay, Cumberland, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Pickett and 2 more	37 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 29 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 1:32 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dubois, Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer and 2 more	118 min
Apr 13, 2:48 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter, Warren	87 min
Apr 13, 6:51 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 20 more	114 min
Apr 13, 4:22 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 9 more	53 min
Apr 13, 4:35 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 13 more	3 hr
Apr 13, 5:48 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Barren, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 22 more	117 min
Apr 13, 2:42 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more	7 hr
Apr 13, 3:42 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 14 more	63 min
Apr 13, 6:00 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	McNairy	90 min
Apr 13, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Lincoln, Moore	4 hr

Nearby

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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.