Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1986, 3:55 PM CDT for Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1986, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pemiscot County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Pemiscot, MO | |
| Jun 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Pemiscot, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 3618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 tornado 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, Jun 9, 1:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 130 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986 THERE WERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN WESTERN KENTUCKY AT 125 PM CDT. THIS HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING ALONG A LINE FROM JUST EAST OF MADISONVILLE TO JUST EAST OF OWENSBORO AND MOVING UP INTO HANCOCK COUNTY. THIS HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING THROUGH MCLEAN... DAVIESS AND HANCOCK COUNTIES. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THERE WERE ALSO A COUPLE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF THIS AREA IN THE SOUTHERN INDIANA COUNTY OF SPENCER. MORE RAIN WAS MOVING INTO FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA WAS FROM JUST WEST OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE TO JUST NORTH OF MT VERNON ILLINOIS. THIS RAIN WAS MOSTLY LIGHT AND IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH TOWARD SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE HEAVY RAIN IS OVER FOR THE IMMEDIATE EVANSVILLE AREA WHERE UP TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED THIS MORNING. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS NOW EXPIRED. PERSONS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RISING WATERS EVEN AFTER THE RAIN HAS ENDED. ALSO MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. THE ROADWAY COULD BE WASHED OUT. MORE RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD CAUSE MORE PROBLEMS WITH FLOODING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BLOCK
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 240 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986 THERE WERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN WESTERN KENTUCKY AT 230 PM CDT. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST..TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY..ALSO TO THE SOUTHWEST OF ELIZABETH TOWN KENTUCKY..AND NEAR CENTRAL CITY KENTUCKY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE SOME LOW LAND AND URBAN FLOODING AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTH EAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE A PART OF A MUCH LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND RAIN THAT WAS WITHIN A 165 MILE WIDE AREA..CENTERED ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR COLUMBUS INDIANA TO MAYFIELD KENTUCKY. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS WAS LIGHT RAIN..AND THE PRECIPITATION IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA WAS LARGELY LIGHT RAIN AT 230 PM CDT. . ALL OF THE SHOWERS..THUNDERSTORMS AND AREA OF LIGHT RAIN WERE MOVING TO THE NORTEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN H OUR. WILLIAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Pemiscot | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.