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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this red flag warning at Apr 6, 2010, 2:43 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 4 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 6, 2010, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
Counties Caldwell County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Lyon 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 6, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 6, 4:38 AM CDT, 10 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 438 AM CDT TUE APR 6 2010 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-071000- 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- 438 AM CDT TUE APR 6 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE FORECAST TODAY. THIS WILL CAUSE HAZARDOUS BOATING CONDITIONS ON AREA LAKES. WHILE MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY THIS AFTERNOON WILL RANGE FROM 35 TO 45 PERCENT...THE STRONG WINDS AND DRY FUELS WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER AS WELL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BEGIN TO IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS LATE TONIGHT...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR APPRECIABLE RAIN WILL BE OVER SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY WEDNESDAY EVENING...WHEN 1 TO 2 INCHES MAY FALL. DEPENDING UPON HOW QUICKLY SKIES CLEAR...PATCHY FROST COULD DEVELOP THURSDAY NIGHT AS TEMPERATURES DROP INTO THE 30S. FOR THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD INFORMATION...REFER TO OUR WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 11:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1140 AM CDT TUE APR 6 2010 INZ082-086>088-KYZ001>003-006>013-015>022-MOZ100-107-108-062230- PIKE-VANDERBURGH-WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN-MUHLENBERG- TODD-WAYNE MO-CARTER-RIPLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PETERSBURG...EVANSVILLE...BOONVILLE... ROCKPORT...HICKMAN...CLINTON...BARDWELL...MAYFIELD...SMITHLAND... BENTON...MURRAY...MARION...EDDYVILLE...CADIZ...PRINCETON... DIXON...MADISONVILLE...HOPKINSVILLE...HENDERSON...OWENSBORO... CALHOUN...GREENVILLE...ELKTON...PIEDMONT...VAN BUREN...DONIPHAN 1140 AM CDT TUE APR 6 2010 ...STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY... SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH LOCAL WIND GUSTS 35 TO 40 MPH OR MORE WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE QUAD STATE REGION...SLOWLY DIMINISHING THIS EVENING BEFORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE IN OVERNIGHT. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL MOVE FROM THE OZARK FOOTHILLS IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...ACROSS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. THE WINDS WILL CAUSE SOME DIFFICULTY FOR DRIVERS...ESPECIALLY THOSE PERSONS DRIVING TRACTOR TRAILERS AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLES ON WEST TO EAST ORIENTED ROADWAYS. FOR THOSE CONSIDERING TRAVEL ON AREA LAKES...BE AWARE THAT THE WINDS WILL CAUSE CHOPPY WAVES. THIS MAY LEAD TO PROBLEMS CONTROLLING WATERCRAFT...AND COULD CAPSIZE ANY UNSTABLE WATERCRAFT. LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BE TOSSED AROUND AND SOME BROKEN TREE LIMBS MAY TOPPLE AND FALL. AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER WILL EXIST AS WELL THIS AFTERNOON...DUE TO THE STRONG WINDS AND DRYING OF SHORT DURATION FUEL SOURCES. SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 11:42 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | PAH | Ballard, McCracken, Union | 6 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.