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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this red flag warning at Feb 27, 2024, 2:30 AM CST for 5 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Feb 27, 2024, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 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 27, 2024, 2:30 AM CST (08:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2024, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
Counties Carter County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 404 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1441 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Feb 27, 1:48 AM CST, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 1:48 AM CST, 42 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 27, 3:04 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Gallatin, Saline | 26 min |
| Feb 27, 3:24 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | Hamilton | 36 min |
| Feb 27, 3:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | PAH | White | 27 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.