Alert archive / Kentucky / Freeze Warnings in 2009
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this freeze warning at Apr 7, 2009, 10:58 AM CDT for 22 counties in Kentucky; 19 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Apr 8, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Apr 7, 2009, 10:58 AM CDT (15:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2009, 8:39 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
All 52 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, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian 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, Todd County, KY, Trigg 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), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:01 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 312 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 7, 7:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 7:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 7, 4:21 AM CDT, 6 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 421 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-081000- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 421 AM CDT TUE APR 7 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT TEMPERATURES WILL BOTTOM OUT NEAR THE FREEZING MARK OVER MUCH OF THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT. PLEASE SEE THE FREEZE WATCH FOR MORE DETAILS. IN ADDITION...MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE NEAR THE CONFLUENCE OF THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST FOR THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. OTHERWISE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERN EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER...BUT A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT AT THIS TIME. MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST NEAR THE CONFLUENCE OF THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS...AND ALONG PORTIONS OF THE WHITE AND WABASH RIVERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE FORECAST FOR THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2009Freeze Warnings in Illinois, 2009Freeze Warnings in Missouri, 2009Every freeze warning in 2009
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.