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Tornado Watch 76

April 2, 20244 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 12:08 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2024, 12:08 PM CDT (17:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 47 counties

Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Gibson County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Scott County, MO

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Johnson, Union, Williamson	30 min
Apr 2, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson	16 min
Apr 2, 2:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	18 min
Apr 2, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	41 min
Apr 2, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins	19 min
Apr 2, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McLean, Muhlenberg	15 min
Apr 2, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hopkins, Muhlenberg	26 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 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: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Clay, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton and 16 more	5 hr
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, 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

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.