Mesoscale Discussion 0369
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   0953 PM CDT Wed Apr 02 2025

   Areas affected...parts of wrn and middle TN...wrn and central
   KY...adjacent sern IN...swrn OH

   Concerning...Tornado Watch 102...98...

   Valid 030253Z - 030500Z

   The severe weather threat for Tornado Watch 102, 98 continues.

   SUMMARY...The potential for strong, damaging wind gusts, and perhaps
   a few tornadoes, appears likely to persist with a line of storms
   overspreading the Ohio River vicinity, including the Greater
   Louisville into Cincinnati vicinities, through midnight-1 AM EDT. 
   Trends are being monitored for the possibility of additional watches
   to the east of Tornado Watches 102 and 103.

   DISCUSSION...Northeast of the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio
   Rivers, through the lower Ohio River vicinity, boundary-layer
   instability remains weaker due to more marginal boundary-layer dew
   points and weak mid/upper-level lapse rates.  Forecast soundings
   suggest that CAPE (perhaps on the order of 500-1000 J/kg) may be
   largely confined to the 850-500 mb layer, perhaps aided by steeper
   lapse rates associated with a remnant elevated mixed-layer.  Given
   the intense lower/mid-tropospheric jet streak (including 60-80+ kt
   southwesterly within this layer) now overspreading this region,
   profiles still appear conducive to the downward transfer of damaging
   gusts to the surface in the heavier rain cores.

   Continuing tornadic potential remains more unclear with stronger
   convection becoming undercut by the surface cold pool.  However,
   given a saturated near surface-layer with at least moist adiabatic
   lapse rates, and the strong to extreme nature of the low-level
   shear, meso-vortices with enhanced wind damage, and perhaps tornado,
   potential may persist into the 04-06Z time frame.

   ..Kerr.. 04/03/2025

   ...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov for graphic product...

   ATTN...WFO...ILN...LMK...OHX...IND...PAH...MEG...

   LAT...LON   37508739 38628634 39158547 39048393 37078553 35028891
               35478959 37508739 

   MOST PROBABLE PEAK TORNADO INTENSITY...100-130 MPH
   MOST PROBABLE PEAK HAIL SIZE...UP TO 1.25 IN