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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Paducah, KY

April 4, 20166 counties in Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this freeze warning at Apr 4, 2016, 4:05 AM CDT for 6 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Apr 5, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 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 4, 2016, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 5, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 5, 2016, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY

Counties Edwards County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 00:00Z on 2016-04-04Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2016-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 267 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
2816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
567 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.