Alert archive / Kentucky / Freeze Warnings in 2011

Freeze Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

October 21, 201114 counties in Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this freeze warning at Oct 21, 2011, 4:05 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kentucky. It took effect at Oct 22, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
Oct 21, 2011, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 22, 2011, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 22, 2011, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY

Counties Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 302 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2011-10-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2011-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 21, 4:25 AM CDTFrost AdvisoryPAHBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more28 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2011Every freeze warning in 2011

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.