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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Paducah, KY

April 13, 202222 counties in Kentucky; 19 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this wind advisory at Apr 13, 2022, 1:48 AM CDT for 22 counties in Kentucky; 19 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Apr 13, 2022, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2022, 1:48 AM CDT (06:48 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 13, 2022, 9:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 13, 2022, 5:47 PM CDT
In force: 9 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 06:52 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 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: 450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 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 Apr 12, 7:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 7:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 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
Apr 13, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Carlisle, Hickman	43 min
Apr 13, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	40 min
Apr 13, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton	19 min
Apr 13, 3:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	16 min
Apr 13, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall	56 min
Apr 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and 1 more	4 hr
Apr 13, 4:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman	26 min
Apr 13, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	27 min
Apr 13, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall	32 min
Apr 13, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Trigg	31 min
Apr 13, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Lyon	30 min
Apr 13, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Crittenden	37 min
Apr 13, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, McLean and 4 more	56 min
Apr 13, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Trigg	39 min
Apr 13, 5:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 13, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	42 min
Apr 13, 5:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	87 min
Apr 13, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McLean, Muhlenberg	32 min
Apr 13, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Todd	13 min
Apr 13, 10:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Franklin	36 min
Apr 13, 10:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Carter	33 min
Apr 13, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Butler, Ripley	43 min
Apr 13, 1:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Perry, Ripley, Wayne	3 hr
Apr 13, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Stoddard	31 min

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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.