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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Louisville, KY

May 14, 1986Breckinridge County, Hardin County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 3:12 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1986, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1986, 4:10 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Breckinridge County, KY, Hardin 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 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

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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, 9:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 22 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

Special weather statement, May 14, 2:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
3 PM EDT WED MAY 14 1986

     ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

AT 255 PM EDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL
KENTUCKY INTO EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON
IN SOUTHWEST ANDERSON COUNTY..AND 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON IN
SOUTHWEST MERCER COUNTY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR AND
WILL CROSS ANDERSON AND MERCER COUNTIES BETWEEN 3 PM AND 4 PM EDT
THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...ESPECIALLY IN ANDERSON AND MERCER
COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEEK
SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPRAOCH.
WHITE

Special weather statement, May 14, 3:08 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
405 PM EDT WED MAY 14 1986

      ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM EDT TONIGHT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF WEST
AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 11 PM EDT WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

THE COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE ANDERSON..BOYLE..FRANKLIN AND MERCER.

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF FRANKFORT..LAWRENCEBURG..HARRODSBURG..
AND DANVILLE.

AT 4 PM EDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..SOME SEVERE..WERE LOCATED OVER
CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST TOWARD EAST CENTRAL
KENTUCKY.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER.
PLEASE MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
WHITE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	35 min
May 14, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue	60 min
May 14, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	60 min
May 14, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Taylor	60 min
May 14, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	35 min
May 14, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	45 min
May 14, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	48 min
May 14, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Taylor	60 min
May 14, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fulton, Hickman	50 min
May 14, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	60 min

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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.