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Tornado Watch 94
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2025, 2:28 AM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2025, 2:28 AM CDT (07:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 38 counties
Atchison County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 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
- 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 4 more | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami, Wyandotte | 38 min |
| Apr 2, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Linn, Miami | 50 min |
| Apr 2, 5:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Linn, Miami | 50 min |
| Apr 2, 6:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 43 min |
| Apr 2, 7:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 7:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Henry, Johnson, Pettis | 21 min |
| Apr 2, 7:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Bates | 12 min |
| Apr 2, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 8:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 11 min |
| Apr 2, 8:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper, Howard | 19 min |
| Apr 2, 9:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 9:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Howard | 15 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 42 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 1, 8:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Geary, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 8 more | 64 min |
| Apr 1, 11:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 17 more | 117 min |
| Apr 1, 11:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McDonald | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cole and 19 more | 118 min |
| Apr 2, 8:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 30 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Ripley and 3 more | 96 min |
| Apr 2, 12:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott, Stoddard | 114 min |
| Apr 2, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Franklin, Howell and 13 more | 94 min |
| Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Reynolds, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott, Stoddard | 115 min |
| Apr 2, 6:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 93 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.