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Tornado Watch 81
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2024, 7:22 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2024, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2024, 11:49 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 58 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Muskingum | 58 min |
| Apr 2, 8:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 15 min |
| Apr 2, 8:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Perry | 14 min |
| Apr 2, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenup | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble, Tuscarawas | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 8:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Tuscarawas | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 9:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 20 min |
| Apr 2, 9:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana | 6 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 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, 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, 7:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greenup | 61 min |
| Apr 1, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Darke, Hamilton, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and 2 more | 6 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.