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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this winter storm warning at Feb 22, 2022, 2:18 PM CST for 12 counties in Kentucky; 12 counties in Illinois; 11 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Feb 23, 2022, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 29 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
- Feb 22, 2022, 2:18 PM CST (20:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2022, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2022, 5:27 PM CST
- In force
- 29 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
All 35 counties
Alexander County, IL, Franklin 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, Union County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken 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), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 473 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 499 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 warning 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 warning went out at Feb 22, 11:28 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 11:28 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 21, 7:58 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 26 days |
| Feb 21, 7:58 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 23 days |
| Feb 21, 7:58 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Livingston, McCracken | 23 days |
| Feb 22, 5:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 5:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves, Hickman | 18 min |
| Feb 22, 6:11 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Fulton | 19 min |
| Feb 22, 6:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 19 min |
| Feb 22, 6:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 22 min |
| Feb 22, 7:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 7:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 7:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 7:37 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Trigg | 8 min |
| Feb 22, 8:01 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Todd | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 22 min |
| Feb 22, 12:55 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 4:32 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Union | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 3:22 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Butler, Ripley | 38 min |
| Feb 22, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 29 min |
| Feb 22, 3:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 4:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley, Stoddard | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 5:28 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | New Madrid | 47 min |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Kentucky, 2022Winter Storm Warnings in Illinois, 2022Winter Storm Warnings in Missouri, 2022Every winter storm warning in 2022
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.