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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Paducah, KY

February 23, 201922 counties in Kentucky; 19 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this wind advisory at Feb 23, 2019, 4:08 AM CST for 22 counties in Kentucky; 19 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Feb 24, 2019, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 23, 2019, 4:08 AM CST (10:08 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 24, 2019, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 24, 2019, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY

All 52 counties

Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 232 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 23, 3:37 AM CST, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 3:37 AM CST, 31 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 23, 11:44 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Hickman	46 min
Feb 23, 12:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Union	39 min
Feb 23, 12:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman	3 hr
Feb 23, 12:51 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall	6 hr
Feb 23, 1:06 PM CST	River Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	4 hr
Feb 23, 2:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Trigg	3 hr
Feb 23, 2:51 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon	3 hr
Feb 23, 3:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	3 hr
Feb 23, 3:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Christian, Todd	26 min
Feb 23, 5:14 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	Trigg	3 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Kentucky, 2019 Wind Advisories in Illinois, 2019 Wind Advisories in Missouri, 2019 Every wind advisory in 2019

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.