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Tornado Watch 77
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 1:25 PM EDT for 33 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2024, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2024, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 33 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 70%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie | 49 min |
| Apr 2, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Letcher, Perry | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 37 min |
| Apr 2, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Harlan, Letcher, Pike | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Rowan | 14 min |
| Apr 2, 8:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie | 29 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 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
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, 10:20 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, 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, 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, 4:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 29 more | 87 min |
| Apr 2, 6:07 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 25 more | 7 hr |
| 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 |
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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.