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Tornado Watch 74

April 2, 20244 counties in Kentucky; 24 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 10:20 AM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky; 24 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2024, 10:20 AM EDT (14:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2024, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 28 counties

Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Roane County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:22 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: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 10:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd, Carter, Lawrence	38 min
Apr 2, 10:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam	51 min
Apr 2, 10:27 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Boyd	33 min
Apr 2, 10:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Boyd, Lawrence	30 min
Apr 2, 10:51 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Boone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason and 2 more	24 min
Apr 2, 11:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 2 more	45 min
Apr 2, 11:03 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Mason, Ritchie, Roane and 1 more	42 min
Apr 2, 11:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Pleasants, Ritchie and 3 more	64 min
Apr 2, 11:15 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas and 1 more	30 min
Apr 2, 11:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wirt	23 min
Apr 2, 11:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Logan, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming	50 min
Apr 2, 11:27 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Raleigh	36 min
Apr 2, 11:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RLX	Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer and 7 more	76 min
Apr 2, 11:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh and 1 more	44 min
Apr 2, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor	39 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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 1, 8:37 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 3 more	83 min
Apr 2, 2:16 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Daviess, Henderson, Union, Webster	89 min
Apr 2, 3:00 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ballard, Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 8 more	5 hr
Apr 2, 4:10 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Kenton	95 min
Apr 2, 5:55 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 25 more	95 min
Apr 2, 6:55 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Breckinridge and 51 more	4 hr
Apr 2, 8:16 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Breckinridge and 35 more	89 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, 10:50 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Calloway, Casey, Christian and 14 more	5 hr
Apr 2, 11:58 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Henderson	3 hr
Apr 2, 12:48 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Crittenden, Hickman, Livingston and 2 more	117 min
Apr 2, 12:58 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bath, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Jackson, Johnson and 16 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 1:08 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	6 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, 3:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Breckinridge and 49 more	92 min
Apr 2, 3:49 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Breathitt, Clay and 23 more	116 min
Apr 2, 3:49 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 55 more	6 hr
Apr 2, 5:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge and 36 more	86 min
Apr 2, 6:15 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell and 17 more	90 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
Apr 2, 10:59 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and 5 more	91 min
Apr 2, 12:12 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greenbrier, Monroe, Pocahontas	63 min
Apr 2, 4:38 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Fayette, Greenbrier, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Webster	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.