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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

January 11, 202422 counties in Kentucky; 7 counties in Illinois; Mississippi County, New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this high wind warning at Jan 11, 2024, 1:53 PM CST for 22 counties in Kentucky; 7 counties in Illinois; Mississippi County, New Madrid County, Missouri. It took effect at Jan 12, 2024, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 20 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: Jan 11, 2024, 1:53 PM CST (19:53 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 12, 2024, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 12, 2024, 7:32 PM CST
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY

All 31 counties

Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White 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, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 324 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: 761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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 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 Jan 11, 11:28 AM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 11:28 AM CST, 2 hours 25 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
Jan 11, 2:05 AM CST	Wind Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	46 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Kentucky, 2024 High Wind Warnings in Illinois, 2024 High Wind Warnings in Missouri, 2024 Every high wind warning in 2024

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.