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Tornado Watch 130
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 6, 2025, 1:36 AM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2025, 1:36 AM EDT (05:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2025, 5:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Macon County, NC, Swain County, NC, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:36 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 1:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Marion, Sequatchie | 38 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 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 5, 9:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion and 3 more | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Franklin and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:45 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb and 21 more | 90 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.