1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Feb 28, 2:45 AM CST, 9 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 245 AM CST TUE FEB 28 2006 .DISCUSSION... THE NEAR TERM FORECAST IS PLEASANTLY MILD...WITH TEMPS TODAY ANTICIPATED TO AT LEAST REACH YDAYS LEVELS IF NOT ADD A COUPLE OR THREE DEGREES ON TOP. THEN IN THE 24-48 HOUR FRAME WE GET INTO THE WARM SECTOR OF A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM AND THIS SETS THE STAGE FOR A CHANGE IN OUR ATMOSPHERICS WHICH WILL LEAD TO OUR NEXT CHANCE OF PCPN...INCLUDING THUNDER POTENTIAL. IT LOOKS LIKE THE 00Z MODEL DATA IS A LITTLE QUICKER WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT AND AS SUCH BY WED PM WE SEE TEMPS PUSHING 70 AND TDS WELL INTO THE 50S. BOTH ELEVATED AND SURFACE BASED STABILITY PARAMETERS SUPPORT MENTION OF THUNDER AND LATEST SWODY2 OUTLOOKS MOST OF FA. WL TWEEK GOING FORECAST FOR SLIGHTLY QUICKER MODEL TIMING AND FOCUS ON WED PM-WED NIGHT FRAME FOR BEST CHC THUNDER. BOTH GFS/NAM AGREE BY 12Z THU FRONT IS THRU FA...WITH CLOUDS DIMINISHING DURING DAY THU FROM NW TO SE. BEYOND THE NEAR TERM THE MAIN CHANGE IN THE MEDIUM TO LONGER RANGE IS THE SIGNIFICANTLY COLDER LATE WEEKEND/EARLY NEXT WEEK TEMPS AFTER ANOTHER ANTICIPATED FROPA. THIS RESULTS IN MINOR POP AND TEMP FORECAST CHANGES...INCLUDING TYPE OF WEATHER DUE TO TEMPS (SNOW VERSUS RAIN OR SNOW GIVEN COLDER TEMPS). AND THIS GIVEN WE ONLY WENT ABOUT 1/2 WAY INTO ACCEPTING THE GFS...EVEN THOUGH THE DGEX LIKEWISE SHOWS A SIMILAR/SUPPORTIVELY COLDER LONG TERM SOLUTION. WE BLENDED MOS NEAR TERM AND SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE IN THE MEDIUM RANGE BETWEEN THE NAM/GFS. LONGER RANGE WE USED HPC AND GFS MEX BASED MOS AS OUR GUIDE...BUT AS MENTIONED ONLY HALF-STEPPED TOWARD THE COLDEST MEX MOS NOS. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 428 AM CST TUE FEB 28 2006 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-011100- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 428 AM CST TUE FEB 28 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. PRELIMINARY INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE AVAILABLE FORCING FOR STRONG OR LONG LIVED UPDRAFTS IS TOO WEAK TO SUSTAIN WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER. ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH AND OFFER THUNDERSTORM CHANCES AGAIN SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. IT IS TOO EARLY TO TELL IF THIS FRONT WILL OFFER ANY BETTER CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MAINTAIN A WEATHER WATCH IN CASE THEIR ACTIVATION IS EVENTUALLY REQUESTED FOR THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire burned 356 acres near the Warrick County line, southeast of Spurgeon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5522366.