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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY

February 10, 200819 counties in Illinois; 18 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this winter storm warning at Feb 10, 2008, 10:00 PM CST for 19 counties in Illinois; 18 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Feb 11, 2008, 4:59 AM CST. It was in force for 31 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: Feb 10, 2008, 10:00 PM CST (04:00 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 11, 2008, 4:59 AM CST
Expired: Feb 12, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY

All 48 counties

Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 307 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: 1549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 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 Feb 10, 2:30 PM CST, 7 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 2:30 PM CST, 7 hours 30 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
Feb 11, 2:16 PM CST	River Flood Warning	PAH	Hardin, Pope	10 days
Feb 11, 12:17 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	Caldwell, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Hopkins and 3 more	16 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Illinois, 2008 Winter Storm Warnings in Kentucky, 2008 Winter Storm Warnings in Missouri, 2008 Every winter storm warning in 2008

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.