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Tornado Watch 102
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2025, 7:22 PM EDT for 10 counties in Indiana; 31 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2025, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2025, 1:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 41 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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
- 80%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 60%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 22 min |
| Apr 2, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Simpson, Warren | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Warren | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 10:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois, Perry | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Harrison, Orange, Perry, Washington | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 10:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 10:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 10:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry | 36 min |
| Apr 2, 10:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Logan, Ohio, Warren | 67 min |
| Apr 2, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry and 1 more | 62 min |
| Apr 2, 10:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 11:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott, Washington | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 11:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Perry | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 11:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison, Perry | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 11:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Scott | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 11:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 12:00 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Jefferson | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 12:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, Hart and 2 more | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Franklin, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby and 1 more | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Bullitt, Franklin, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer and 1 more | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin, Larue, Marion and 1 more | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 12:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Shelby | 14 min |
| Apr 3, 1:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Henry, Mercer, Nelson, Scott and 4 more | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 1:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Franklin, Harrison, Henry, Scott, Shelby | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 1:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue, Marion, Nelson, Washington | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 1:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 1:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Mercer, Nelson and 4 more | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 30 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 471 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Jay, Wells | 119 min |
| Apr 2, 10:48 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Fountain, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Tippecanoe and 2 more | 117 min |
| Apr 2, 3:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Clay, Fountain, Gibson, Greene, Knox and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Posey, Vanderburgh | 115 min |
| Apr 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain, Fulton and 12 more | 95 min |
| Apr 2, 1:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 3 more | 114 min |
| Apr 2, 4:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 46 more | 2 hr |
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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.