Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 1:15 PM EDT for Bullitt County, Nelson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1986, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1986, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullitt County, KY, Nelson 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 14, 10:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND KENTUCKY WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1050 AM EDT WED MAY 14 1986 THUNDERSTORMS BRING MUCH NEEDED RAIN TO KENTUCKY SEVERAL PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING BROUGHT MUCH NEEDED RAIN TO THE BLUEGRASS STATE. THIS LATEST ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS THE MOST WIDESPREAD OF THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. WHILE IT CERTAINLY WAS BENIFICIAL..SOME AREAS OF THE COMMONWEALTH REMAIN VERY DRY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY TO HELP MAKE UP THIS DEFICIT. IN FACT SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS AS THE ATMOSPHERE HEATS UP LATER THIS AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS. THE WET WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND AS WARM..MOIST AIR REMAINS OVER THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCES WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THIS AIRMASS TOUCHING OFF PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. KLEIND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 11:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 35 min |
| May 14, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 60 min |
| May 14, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Taylor | 60 min |
| May 14, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 35 min |
| May 14, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 45 min |
| May 14, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin | 58 min |
| May 14, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 48 min |
| May 14, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Taylor | 60 min |
| May 14, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fulton, Hickman | 50 min |
| May 14, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 60 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.