Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 1986, 3:03 AM CST for Butler County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 1986, 3:03 AM CST (09:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 1986, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler 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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEVV 120905 SVREVV KYC141-177-059-031-219-120930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 303 AM CST WED MAR 12 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...LOGAN...MUHLENBERG...OHIO...BUTLER AND TODD AT 300 AM CST VERY STRONG AND DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER TODD AND MUHLENBERG COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY ..AND WILL ENTER LOGAN BUTLER AND OHIO COUNTIES BEFORE 330 AM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT ASGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THESE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND ARE CAPABLE OF STRONG DAMAGING WIND LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ZIMMER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 11, 11:43 PM CST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1140 PM CST TUE MAR 11 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN FAR WEST KENTUCKY... AT 11 30 PM CENTRAL TIME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER FAR WEST KENTUCKY FROM NEAR MAYFIELD SOUTHWEST THROUGH HICKMAN IN FULTON COUNTY THEN SOUTH INTO TENNESSEE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. MARBLE SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED BY STATE POLICE IN MAYFIELD FROM THESE STORMS. TO THE SOUTH IN TENNESSEE HAIL THE SIZE OF GULF BALLS HAS BEEN OBSERVED. THESE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AND VERY STRONG STORMS IN TENNESSEE WILL LIKELY BE MOVING NORTH INTO KENTUCKY BEFORE 2 AM CENTRAL TIME. PERSONS IN WEST KENTUCKY ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THE WEATHER BECOMES UNUSUALLY THREATENING. SCHOLZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Calloway, Graves | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 3:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Muhlenberg, Todd | 27 min |
| Mar 12, 3:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 32 min |
| Mar 12, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Grayson, Hart | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 4:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Meade | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 4:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 58 min |
| Mar 12, 5:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Woodford | 60 min |
| Mar 12, 6:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 6:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fleming | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 6:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fleming, Nicholas | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Fayette | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Fleming | 30 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.