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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

March 15, 202616 counties in Kentucky; 19 counties in Illinois; 7 counties in Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this high wind warning at Mar 15, 2026, 10:45 AM CDT for 16 counties in Kentucky; 19 counties in Illinois; 7 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 8 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: Mar 15, 2026, 10:45 AM CDT (15:45 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2026, 6:46 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY

All 42 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, Crittenden County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:46 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1402 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 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 Mar 15, 1:17 AM CDT, 9 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 1:17 AM CDT, 9 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 10:30 AM CDT, 15 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
Mar 15, 12:59 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	18 hr
Mar 15, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	39 min
Mar 15, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton	28 min
Mar 15, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	38 min
Mar 15, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Perry	40 min
Mar 15, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson, Perry	51 min
Mar 15, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Williamson	39 min
Mar 15, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union, Williamson	48 min
Mar 15, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Carter, Ripley	63 min
Mar 15, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley	48 min
Mar 15, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ripley	31 min
Mar 15, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Wayne	44 min
Mar 15, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	48 min
Mar 15, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	29 min
Mar 15, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard, Wayne	46 min
Mar 15, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger	30 min
Mar 15, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, Perry	23 min
Mar 15, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau	51 min
Mar 15, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau, Perry	16 min

Nearby

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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.