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Tornado Watch 72
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 2:00 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2024, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2024, 7:18 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 50 counties
Alexander County, IL, Clay County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Daviess County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Perry County, MO, Scott County, MO, Wayne County, MO
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
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
38 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Perry | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 2:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Perry | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 2:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Wayne | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 3:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 50 min |
| Apr 2, 3:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry, Wayne | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Johnson, Pulaski, Union | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, Wayne | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 4:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander, Union | 37 min |
| Apr 2, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Perry, Williamson | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 4:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash, Wayne | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 4:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski | 19 min |
| Apr 2, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Franklin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 4 more | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 4:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Hamilton, Wabash, Wayne, White | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 4:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 5:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope, Pulaski | 26 min |
| Apr 2, 5:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac | 22 min |
| Apr 2, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 2 more | 64 min |
| Apr 2, 5:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin, Pope, Saline | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 5:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin, White | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 5:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | White | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 5:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gallatin | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 5:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 5:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 5:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey, Vanderburgh | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 5:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh, Warrick | 20 min |
| Apr 2, 5:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Warrick | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 5:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson | 19 min |
| Apr 2, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Spencer | 59 min |
| Apr 2, 6:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 6:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer, Warrick | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 6:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer | 27 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 1400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -167 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 1, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Lawrence | 83 min |
| Apr 1, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 1, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Madison, Marion, Monroe and 3 more | 94 min |
| Apr 2, 1:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 19 more | 89 min |
| Apr 2, 10:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Edwards, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash, Wayne and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 9 more | 117 min |
| Apr 2, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin | 92 min |
| Apr 1, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Dearborn and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Franklin, Jackson and 9 more | 95 min |
| Apr 2, 4:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 7 more | 95 min |
| Apr 2, 5:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison | 89 min |
| Apr 2, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 2 more | 86 min |
| Apr 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland | 90 min |
| Apr 2, 8:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Christian, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall and 1 more | 88 min |
| Apr 2, 9:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup and 10 more | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 9:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 9:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Calloway, Casey, Christian and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Johnson and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Cumberland, Monroe, Simpson | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Breathitt, Clay and 23 more | 116 min |
| Apr 2, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greenup | 61 min |
| Apr 1, 8:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 10 more | 88 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.