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Tornado Watch 41
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 15, 2025, 2:36 AM EDT for 42 counties in Indiana; 38 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2025, 2:36 AM EDT (06:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2025, 8:53 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 90 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boone County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton 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, Owen County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:37 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Boone, Carroll, Clinton, Hamilton, Howard, Montgomery and 2 more | 48 min |
| Mar 15, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Howard, Madison, Tipton | 49 min |
| Mar 15, 4:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hendricks, Marion, Morgan, Owen, Putnam | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 4:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois | 20 min |
| Mar 15, 4:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 4:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe, Morgan, Owen | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 4:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Lawrence, Martin | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 4:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry, Washington | 41 min |
| Mar 15, 4:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan, Shelby | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 4:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 4:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 4:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Lawrence, Martin, Monroe | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 4:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 5:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Jefferson, Orange, Scott and 1 more | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 5:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Monroe | 51 min |
| Mar 15, 5:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry, Washington | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 5:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 5:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Washington | 40 min |
| Mar 15, 5:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Decatur, Johnson, Rush, Shelby | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 5:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley | 49 min |
| Mar 15, 5:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Henry, Rush, Shelby | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 5:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Perry | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 5:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 6:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 6:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Perry, Washington | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 6:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Perry | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 6:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 6:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Harrison, Scott, Washington | 22 min |
| Mar 15, 6:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Preble, Shelby | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 6:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Perry | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 6:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Floyd, Harrison | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 6:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 7:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 23 min |
| Mar 15, 7:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 7:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 35 min |
| Mar 15, 7:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Logan, Miami, Montgomery | 32 min |
| Mar 15, 7:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 34 min |
| Mar 15, 7:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Oldham, Shelby | 31 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 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 2150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 8:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 10 hr |
| Mar 14, 8:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fountain, Sullivan, Vermillion, Vigo, Warren | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Clay, Daviess, Fountain, Greene, Knox and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 12:50 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 115 min |
| Mar 15, 12:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 20 more | 63 min |
| Mar 15, 1:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:09 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clark, Crawford and 35 more | 96 min |
| Mar 15, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 33 more | 87 min |
| Mar 15, 8:19 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Fleming, Grant and 10 more | 86 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.