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Tornado Watch 379

June 25, 202316 counties in Indiana; 45 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 25, 2023, 3:54 PM EDT for 16 counties in Indiana; 45 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2023, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2023, 10:57 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 61 counties

Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	34 min
Jun 25, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Posey	24 min
Jun 25, 4:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	34 min
Jun 25, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	43 min
Jun 25, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington	34 min
Jun 25, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Crittenden, Hopkins, Union, Webster	26 min
Jun 25, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Perry	31 min
Jun 25, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	29 min
Jun 25, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	36 min
Jun 25, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Washington	35 min
Jun 25, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Hopkins, Webster	46 min
Jun 25, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Webster	40 min
Jun 25, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	29 min
Jun 25, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Harrison	27 min
Jun 25, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Washington	37 min
Jun 25, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Floyd, Harrison	25 min
Jun 25, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Harrison	24 min
Jun 25, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins, Muhlenberg	10 min
Jun 25, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Jefferson	35 min
Jun 25, 6:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	14 min
Jun 25, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Harrison	31 min
Jun 25, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	30 min
Jun 25, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	19 min
Jun 25, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington	32 min
Jun 25, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Larue, Marion and 4 more	47 min
Jun 25, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	36 min
Jun 25, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Anderson, Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer, Washington and 1 more	46 min
Jun 25, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Scott, Washington	37 min
Jun 25, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson, Spencer, Warrick	50 min
Jun 25, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	31 min
Jun 25, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer	24 min
Jun 25, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	26 min
Jun 25, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Perry	29 min
Jun 25, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	29 min
Jun 25, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Shelby	24 min
Jun 25, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Scott	35 min
Jun 25, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	46 min
Jun 25, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Jefferson, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	31 min
Jun 25, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Mercer, Scott and 1 more	46 min
Jun 25, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	41 min
Jun 25, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	22 min
Jun 25, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	27 min
Jun 25, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Shelby and 3 more	48 min
Jun 25, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Spencer	36 min
Jun 25, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Woodford	36 min
Jun 25, 9:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	34 min
Jun 25, 9:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess	110 min
Jun 25, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson, Spencer	19 min
Jun 25, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	30 min
Jun 25, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer and 1 more	29 min
Jun 25, 10:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	PAH	Daviess	14 min
Jun 25, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Ohio	33 min
Jun 25, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison	46 min
Jun 25, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue	30 min
Jun 25, 10:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer	47 min
Jun 25, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Nelson, Taylor	33 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 1639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 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
Jun 24, 9:52 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Fulton and 25 more	83 min
Jun 25, 12:56 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 35 more	2 hr
Jun 25, 1:34 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 54 more	6 hr
Jun 25, 3:22 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry and 3 more	83 min
Jun 25, 3:46 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, Union	89 min
Jun 25, 4:18 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Daviess and 27 more	87 min
Jun 25, 4:18 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more	4 hr
Jun 25, 5:47 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison and 12 more	118 min
Jun 25, 11:30 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley	2 hr
Jun 25, 5:45 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton, Graves and 7 more	90 min
Jun 25, 7:23 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashland, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Huron, Lorain and 8 more	97 min

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.