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Tornado Watch 115

April 4, 20256 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 4, 2025, 2:56 PM CDT for 6 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2025, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 97 counties

Clay County, AR, Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Greene County, AR, Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Robertson, Sumner	17 min
Apr 4, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	39 min
Apr 4, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	20 min
Apr 4, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	45 min
Apr 4, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall, Tippah	47 min
Apr 4, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Stewart	30 min
Apr 4, 3:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Trigg	36 min
Apr 4, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Stewart	21 min
Apr 4, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Christian, Trigg	43 min
Apr 4, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton	11 min
Apr 4, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	47 min
Apr 4, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne	50 min
Apr 4, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	28 min
Apr 4, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler	31 min
Apr 4, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne	39 min
Apr 4, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard, Wayne	51 min
Apr 4, 7:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	37 hr
Apr 4, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley	40 min
Apr 4, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander, Union	49 min
Apr 4, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne	42 min
Apr 4, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	Jackson, Union	32 min
Apr 4, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander	41 min
Apr 4, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	25 hr
Apr 4, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	43 min
Apr 4, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union	40 min
Apr 4, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne	39 min
Apr 4, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley	18 min
Apr 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski, Union	45 min
Apr 4, 8:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union	24 hr
Apr 4, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Butler, Carter, Ripley, Stoddard, Wayne	21 min
Apr 4, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Union	54 min
Apr 4, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard	44 min
Apr 4, 9:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Cape Girardeau	6 hr
Apr 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Union, Williamson	26 min
Apr 4, 9:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Alexander	24 hr
Apr 4, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, White, Williamson	51 min
Apr 4, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott	47 min
Apr 4, 9:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Johnson, Pulaski, Williamson	24 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 547 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 527 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 7:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Faulkner, Greene and 12 more	64 min
Apr 3, 8:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mississippi	92 min
Apr 4, 2:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Craighead and 36 more	114 min
Apr 4, 4:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 4 more	117 min
Apr 4, 4:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 10 more	6 hr
Apr 4, 7:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 15 more	114 min
Apr 4, 12:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 41 more	115 min
Apr 4, 12:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips, St. Francis	2 hr
Apr 4, 12:57 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne and 45 more	8 hr
Apr 4, 3:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Garland, Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Logan, Montgomery and 5 more	87 min
Apr 4, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Franklin, Sebastian	3 hr
Apr 4, 5:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Conway, Dallas and 27 more	87 min
Apr 4, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Perry, Randolph and 4 more	6 hr
Apr 4, 5:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Franklin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Randolph and 1 more	92 min
Apr 4, 3:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 42 more	3 hr
Apr 4, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 45 more	3 hr
Apr 4, 6:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breathitt, Breckinridge and 46 more	59 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.