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Frost Advisory 7, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this frost advisory at Oct 16, 2020, 2:56 AM CDT for 18 counties in Kentucky; 14 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Oct 17, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 2020, 2:56 AM CDT (07:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 17, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2020, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
All 32 counties
Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson 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
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 298 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
- 2824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 3:25 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 28 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:24 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | PAH | Oregon, Shannon | 12 hr |
Nearby
Frost Advisories in Kentucky, 2020Frost Advisories in Illinois, 2020Every frost advisory in 2020
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.