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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Louisville, KY

July 26, 1986Clark County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1986, 7:35 PM EDT for Clark County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1986, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1986, 8:10 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Clark 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

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1986-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2292 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1986-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCasey60 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.