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Tornado Watch 79
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 3:08 PM CDT for 7 counties in Alabama; 12 counties in Mississippi; 51 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2024, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 70 counties
Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
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, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc, Union | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 37 min |
| Apr 2, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tippah, Tishomingo | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 31 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Limestone | 116 min |
| Apr 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 29 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 47 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington and 26 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 8:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Decatur and 23 more | 88 min |
| Apr 2, 9:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 41 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter and 29 more | 87 min |
| Apr 2, 4:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 2 more | 86 min |
| Apr 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 25 more | 7 hr |
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.