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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Paducah, KY

June 9, 1986New Madrid County, Pemiscot County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1986, 5:00 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Pemiscot County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1986, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties New Madrid County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO

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

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1986-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1986-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPAH 092205
TORPAH
MOC155-143-092300-

BULLETIN EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
500 PM CDT MON JUN 09 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE   
UNTIL 600  PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF             

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...PEMISCOTT NEW-MADRID

AUTHORITIES HAVE SIGHTED A TORNADO
 6  MILES NORTH  OF CARUTHERSVILLE MISSOURI.
MOVING TO THE  NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN PEMISCOTT AND NEW MADRID COUNTY SHOULD TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY..ESPECIALLY IN AND NEAR CARUTHERSVILLE   MISSOURI.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...YOU SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT
SHELTER IF AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  ABANDON CARS AHD MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING.

RAMSDELL

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, 3 hours 16 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, 2 hours 18 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
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:38 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
435 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST INDIANA FOR TONIGHT.

AT 430 PM CDT..THERE WERE ISOLATED STRONG THUNDESTORMS IN WESTERN
KENTUCKY..LOCATED NEAR FORT KNOX..ALSO 20 MILE NORTH TO 25 MILES
NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN..AND ABOUT 15 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF
BOLWING GREEN.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE STREET AND HIGHWAY
PONDING AND LOW LAND FLOODING AS THEY DRIFT SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE A PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND LIGHT
RAIN..MOSTLY OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY..FROM ABOUT THE PENNYRILE PARKWAY
..EAST TO INTERSTATE 65 AND BEYOND.

A SMALL PART OF THE RAIN AREA WAS IKN SOUTHERN INDIANA..BETWEEN TELL
CITY INDIANA AND LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY.  THERE WAS ALSO A SMALL AREA OF
LIGHT RAIN NEAR MARION ILLINOIS.
.
ALL OF THE SHOWERS..THUNDERSTORMS AND AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN WERE
MOVING TO THE NORTHEACST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
WILLIAMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPemiscot50 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes 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.