Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT for Franklin County, Jackson County, Williamson County, Illinois. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1986, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Williamson County, IL
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
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 1684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 2:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 235 PM CST WED MAY 14 1986 ... THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE TRI STATE REGION ... AT 230 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING OVER WEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. ONE STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF OWENSBORO..NEAR MADISONVILLE..IN HOPKINS COUNTY. ANOTHER STORM IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI WAS LOCATED 15 MILES TO THE NORTH OF POPLAR BLUFF IN WAYNE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS..CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS OVERHEAD. CAMPBELL
Special weather statement, May 14, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 335 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR EXTREME SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...EXTREME SOUTHERN INDIANA AND FOR ALL OF WESTERN KENTUCKY. AT 325 PM CDT THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN A BAND FROM OWENSBORO TO ELIZABETHTOWN. ALSO A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH TOWARD BOWLING GREEN. THERE WAS ONE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN IN WESTERN KENTUCKY JUST WEST OF MADISONVILLE. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THERE WERE ALSO ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. BLOCK
Special weather statement, May 14, 4:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 48 min |
| May 14, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Scott, Stoddard | 50 min |
| May 14, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 40 min |
| May 14, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.