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Tornado Watch 76

March 30, 202518 counties in Indiana; 41 counties in Kentucky; 26 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2025, 6:45 PM EDT for 18 counties in Indiana; 41 counties in Kentucky; 26 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2025, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2025, 12:48 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 85 counties

Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Scott County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Madison County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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
30%
Ten or more severe wind reports
80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois, Orange37 min
Mar 30, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois46 min
Mar 30, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Franklin, Ripley, Wayne62 min
Mar 30, 7:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley, Switzerland57 min
Mar 30, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Dubois, Orange23 min
Mar 30, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Crawford, Harrison, Washington27 min
Mar 30, 7:49 PM EDTTornado WarningILNDearborn, Franklin, Ripley26 min
Mar 30, 7:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWayne39 min
Mar 30, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Franklin, Union, Wayne65 min
Mar 30, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Floyd, Harrison27 min
Mar 30, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Ohio, Switzerland65 min
Mar 30, 8:15 PM EDTTornado WarningILNDearborn, Franklin, Ripley30 min
Mar 30, 8:19 PM EDTTornado WarningILNDearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland26 min
Mar 30, 8:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami and 2 more53 min
Mar 30, 8:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois, Perry18 min
Mar 30, 8:36 PM EDTTornado WarningILNButler, Warren24 min
Mar 30, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Kenton65 min
Mar 30, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLMKCrawford, Perry28 min
Mar 30, 8:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOhio24 min
Mar 30, 8:57 PM EDTTornado WarningILNButler, Clinton, Warren33 min
Mar 30, 9:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Greene and 4 more53 min
Mar 30, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison36 min
Mar 30, 9:11 PM EDTTornado WarningILNClinton, Fayette, Greene, Warren34 min
Mar 30, 9:13 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge32 min
Mar 30, 9:20 PM EDTTornado WarningILNClinton, Fayette, Highland25 min
Mar 30, 9:23 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHarrison37 min
Mar 30, 9:27 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Hardin, Meade33 min
Mar 30, 9:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison30 min
Mar 30, 9:38 PM EDTTornado WarningILNFayette, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway37 min
Mar 30, 9:41 PM EDTTornado WarningILNClinton, Fayette, Pickaway, Ross34 min
Mar 30, 9:44 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson31 min
Mar 30, 9:44 PM EDTTornado WarningILNClinton, Fayette, Highland, Ross31 min
Mar 30, 9:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDelaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Highland, Licking and 4 more59 min
Mar 30, 9:49 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson26 min
Mar 30, 9:51 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Hardin, Nelson, Spencer24 min
Mar 30, 10:04 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer26 min
Mar 30, 10:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin, Larue, Nelson24 min
Mar 30, 10:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKClark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Perry and 1 more2 hr
Mar 30, 10:14 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKNelson, Washington31 min
Mar 30, 10:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEdmonson, Grayson, Green, Hart28 min
Mar 30, 10:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen, Hart, Larue, Marion, Nelson, Taylor and 1 more23 min
Mar 30, 10:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield, Licking52 min
Mar 30, 10:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson, Franklin, Henry, Scott, Shelby, Woodford36 min
Mar 30, 10:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Grant, Owen, Pendleton, Robertson62 min
Mar 30, 10:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson, Mercer, Shelby, Spencer, Woodford31 min
Mar 30, 10:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLMKAnderson, Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer, Washington33 min
Mar 30, 10:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield, Hocking44 min
Mar 30, 10:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson, Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine and 5 more40 min
Mar 30, 11:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer and 1 more25 min
Mar 30, 11:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAllen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hart and 3 more39 min
Mar 30, 11:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis, Mason, Robertson62 min
Mar 30, 11:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon, Boyle, Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Harrison and 4 more33 min
Mar 30, 11:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis54 min
Mar 30, 11:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Garrard, Madison16 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2025-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2025-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 316 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
316 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
304 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 1:02 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 39 more7 hr
Mar 30, 1:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte and 7 more2 hr
Mar 30, 2:13 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb and 23 more5 hr
Mar 30, 3:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Delaware and 30 more115 min
Mar 30, 3:27 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGibson, Knox93 min
Mar 30, 3:35 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCGibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick8 hr
Mar 30, 3:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDeKalb, LaGrange, Steuben116 min
Mar 30, 6:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison, Perry and 5 more115 min
Mar 30, 6:35 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartholomew, Brown, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette and 20 more115 min
Mar 30, 2:41 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBallard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman2 hr
Mar 30, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Auglaize, Darke, Defiance, Erie, Fulton and 16 more5 hr

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.