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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

December 7, 20054 counties in Illinois; 14 counties in Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this winter storm warning at Dec 7, 2005, 11:48 AM CST for 4 counties in Illinois; 14 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Dec 8, 2005, 4:21 AM CST. It was in force for 16 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 7, 2005, 11:48 AM CST (17:48 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 8, 2005, 4:21 AM CST
Expired: Dec 8, 2005, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY

Counties Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Dec 7, 3:22 AM CST, 8 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 3:22 AM CST, 8 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 7, 4:34 AM CST, 7 hours 14 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 7, 4:18 AM CST	Snow Advisory	PAH	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 13 more	30 hr
Dec 7, 4:18 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg	8 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Kentucky, 2005 Winter Storm Warnings in Illinois, 2005 Every winter storm warning in 2005

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.