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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY

February 17, 1986Breckinridge County, Meade County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 1986, 4:00 PM CST for Breckinridge County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 17, 1986, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Feb 17, 1986, 5:00 PM CST
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Breckinridge County, KY, Meade County, KY

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1986-02-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 53 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1986-02-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 307 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
53 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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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.