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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

April 10, 20127 counties in Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this freeze warning at Apr 10, 2012, 3:01 PM CDT for 7 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Apr 11, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 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 10, 2012, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 11, 2012, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 11, 2012, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY

Counties Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Perry County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2012-04-10Temperature 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2012-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -95 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 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 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 10, 2:50 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 2:50 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 10, 4:14 AM CDTRed Flag WarningPAHChristian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and 3 more15 hr
Apr 10, 3:01 PM CDTFreeze WatchPAHDaviess, Henderson, Union12 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Illinois, 2012Every freeze warning in 2012

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.