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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this high wind warning at Feb 13, 2023, 1:05 PM CST for 9 counties in Kentucky; 6 counties in Illinois; 7 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Feb 14, 2023, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 3 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 13, 2023, 1:05 PM CST (19:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 14, 2023, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2023, 2:08 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
All 22 counties
Alexander County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Union County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 3135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Feb 13, 10:55 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 10:55 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 1:05 PM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 31 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Kentucky, 2023High Wind Warnings in Missouri, 2023High Wind Warnings in Illinois, 2023Every high wind warning in 2023
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.