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Tornado Watch 73

April 2, 20246 counties in Indiana; 57 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 6:55 AM EDT for 6 counties in Indiana; 57 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2024, 6:55 AM EDT (10:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2024, 11:04 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 63 counties

Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:58 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: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 40%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 7:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry	38 min
Apr 2, 7:19 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Perry	26 min
Apr 2, 7:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Perry	39 min
Apr 2, 7:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Ohio	33 min
Apr 2, 7:44 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Perry	31 min
Apr 2, 7:58 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	17 min
Apr 2, 8:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Ohio	40 min
Apr 2, 8:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	21 min
Apr 2, 8:17 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	28 min
Apr 2, 8:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Mason	41 min
Apr 2, 8:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Meade, Nelson	46 min
Apr 2, 8:42 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Nelson, Spencer, Washington	18 min
Apr 2, 8:43 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue	32 min
Apr 2, 8:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Spencer, Washington, Woodford	26 min
Apr 2, 8:55 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Washington, Woodford	35 min
Apr 2, 9:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer, Nelson, Washington	42 min
Apr 2, 9:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer	44 min
Apr 2, 9:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Lee, Menifee and 5 more	44 min
Apr 2, 9:32 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette	28 min
Apr 2, 9:34 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery	26 min
Apr 2, 9:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	35 min
Apr 2, 9:54 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, Wolfe	36 min
Apr 2, 10:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JKL	Bath, Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Lee, Magoffin and 5 more	41 min
Apr 2, 10:06 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan and 1 more	24 min
Apr 2, 10:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan	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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 8:37 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur and 32 more	83 min
Apr 1, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Dearborn and 33 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 2:16 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin and 6 more	89 min
Apr 2, 3:00 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Daviess, Gibson, Knox, Pike, Posey, Spencer and 2 more	5 hr
Apr 2, 4:10 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Franklin, Jackson and 9 more	95 min
Apr 2, 5:55 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 7 more	95 min
Apr 2, 8:16 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harrison	89 min
Apr 2, 11:58 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clay, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 36 more	3 hr
Apr 2, 12:48 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Posey	117 min
Apr 2, 1:08 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick	6 hr
Apr 2, 3:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 23 more	92 min
Apr 2, 3:49 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 24 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 5:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 2 more	86 min
Apr 2, 6:15 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland	90 min
Apr 2, 9:32 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calloway, Christian, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall and 1 more	88 min
Apr 2, 10:00 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup and 10 more	60 min
Apr 2, 10:20 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence	3 hr
Apr 2, 10:50 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Calloway, Casey, Christian and 14 more	5 hr
Apr 2, 12:58 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bath, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Johnson and 16 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 1:25 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Cumberland, Monroe, Simpson	2 hr
Apr 2, 1:25 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	9 hr
Apr 2, 3:49 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Breathitt, Clay and 23 more	116 min
Apr 2, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence	4 hr
Apr 2, 7:59 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greenup	61 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.