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Tornado Watch 124

April 5, 2025Colbert County, Franklin County, Lauderdale County, Alabama; 23 counties in Kentucky; 36 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2025, 1:43 PM CDT for Colbert County, Franklin County, Lauderdale County, Alabama; 23 counties in Kentucky; 36 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 2025, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 62 counties

Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Butler County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hart County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery 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), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart	36 min
Apr 5, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Montgomery, Robertson	50 min
Apr 5, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Humphreys	47 min
Apr 5, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	35 min
Apr 5, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson	29 min
Apr 5, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Perry and 1 more	56 min
Apr 5, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson	34 min
Apr 5, 3:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Butler, Logan, Ohio	11 hr
Apr 5, 4:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman, Humphreys, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry and 1 more	19 hr
Apr 5, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys	24 min
Apr 5, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Robertson, Williamson	54 min
Apr 5, 4:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Simpson, Warren	10 hr
Apr 5, 4:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner, Wilson	19 hr
Apr 5, 4:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson and 1 more	18 hr
Apr 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren	37 min
Apr 5, 4:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Edmonson	10 hr
Apr 5, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Robertson, Sumner	48 min
Apr 5, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson, Sumner, Wilson	44 min
Apr 5, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OHX	Macon, Robertson, Sumner	24 min
Apr 5, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	18 min
Apr 5, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson	32 min
Apr 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OHX	Davidson, Macon, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale and 1 more	60 min
Apr 5, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson	50 min
Apr 5, 5:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Hardin, Hart, Larue	8 hr
Apr 5, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Metcalfe, Monroe	34 min
Apr 5, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay, Macon	31 min
Apr 5, 5:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Hickman, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, Williamson and 1 more	17 hr
Apr 5, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	45 min
Apr 5, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Smith	56 min
Apr 5, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Green, Metcalfe	34 min
Apr 5, 6:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Green, Taylor	6 hr
Apr 5, 6:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Putnam and 4 more	12 hr
Apr 5, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Russell	46 min
Apr 5, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	30 min
Apr 5, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	58 min
Apr 5, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	63 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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 3:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar, Marion and 2 more	2 hr
Apr 5, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale	87 min
Apr 4, 9:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ballard, Breckinridge, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 17 more	67 min
Apr 4, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	5 hr
Apr 4, 11:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 23 more	115 min
Apr 5, 1:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 24 more	87 min
Apr 5, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Calloway, Christian, Logan, Simpson, Todd and 2 more	116 min
Apr 5, 5:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Bell, Casey, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland and 15 more	63 min
Apr 5, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Owsley and 4 more	2 hr
Apr 4, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 6 more	9 hr
Apr 5, 2:11 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 10 more	2 hr
Apr 5, 9:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	119 min
Apr 5, 9:56 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 14 more	9 hr
Apr 5, 11:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Shelby	114 min
Apr 5, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy	7 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.