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Tornado Watch 78

April 2, 202430 counties in Indiana; 61 counties in Kentucky; 29 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 3:49 PM EDT for 30 counties in Indiana; 61 counties in Kentucky; 29 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2024, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2024, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 120 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette 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, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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: 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: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	37 min
Apr 2, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Lawrence, Martin	19 min
Apr 2, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe	36 min
Apr 2, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Hancock, Johnson, Marion, Monroe, Morgan and 2 more	31 min
Apr 2, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Brown, Jackson, Monroe	28 min
Apr 2, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Perry	28 min
Apr 2, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Johnson, Shelby	29 min
Apr 2, 4:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Perry	35 min
Apr 2, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry, Washington	30 min
Apr 2, 4:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Jackson, Jennings	37 min
Apr 2, 4:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott, Washington	36 min
Apr 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	32 min
Apr 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Harrison	32 min
Apr 2, 5:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland	46 min
Apr 2, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	IND	Jennings	20 min
Apr 2, 5:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LMK	Jefferson	21 min
Apr 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	28 min
Apr 2, 5:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark	25 min
Apr 2, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn	49 min
Apr 2, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland	51 min
Apr 2, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	15 min
Apr 2, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Henry	34 min
Apr 2, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Montgomery, Warren	42 min
Apr 2, 6:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ILN	Owen	25 min
Apr 2, 6:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Kenton	16 min
Apr 2, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	38 min
Apr 2, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant, Owen, Pendleton	49 min
Apr 2, 6:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Edmonson, Warren	26 min
Apr 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Ohio	24 min
Apr 2, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell	24 min
Apr 2, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Madison, Pickaway	51 min
Apr 2, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Mason, Pendleton, Robertson	39 min
Apr 2, 7:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Bracken, Mason	33 min
Apr 2, 7:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren	25 min
Apr 2, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Brown, Highland	7 min
Apr 2, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Pickaway	48 min
Apr 2, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Lewis, Mason, Robertson	69 min
Apr 2, 7:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown	34 min
Apr 2, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	36 min
Apr 2, 7:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	31 min
Apr 2, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	29 min
Apr 2, 8:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Licking	23 min
Apr 2, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Garrard, Lincoln	31 min
Apr 2, 8:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Pike, Scioto	18 min
Apr 2, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe	27 min
Apr 2, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike	34 min
Apr 2, 8:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Scioto	12 min
Apr 2, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell	17 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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	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, 6:55 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Perry	4 hr
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, 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

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.