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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this winter storm watch at Dec 25, 2012, 4:49 AM CST for Christian County, Muhlenberg County, Todd County, Kentucky. It took effect at Dec 26, 2012, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 25, 2012, 4:49 AM CST (10:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 26, 2012, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2012, 1:31 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
Counties Christian County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 340 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
- 2386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 watch went out at Dec 25, 4:11 AM CST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 4:11 AM CST, 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 4:49 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 29 hr |
| Dec 25, 1:31 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson and 10 more | 25 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.