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Tornado Watch 126
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 5, 2025, 7:13 PM EDT for 10 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2025, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2025, 9:26 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Clay County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne, Whitley | 46 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -100 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 4, 10:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 17 more | 67 min |
| Apr 4, 10:41 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 23 more | 115 min |
| Apr 5, 2:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 24 more | 87 min |
| Apr 5, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Casey and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Calloway, Christian, Logan, Simpson, Todd and 2 more | 116 min |
| Apr 5, 6:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Bell, Casey, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland and 15 more | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 6 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:11 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 119 min |
| Apr 5, 10:56 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 14 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Shelby | 114 min |
| Apr 5, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 7:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Lewis, Wayne | 87 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.