Alert archive / Illinois / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 1, 1986, 5:28 PM CDT for Franklin County, Illinois. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1986, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1986, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 012230 TORPAH ILC055-012315- BULLETIN EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 528 PM CDT TUE JUL 01 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE COUNTY OF FRANKLIN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS..FRANKLIN AUTHORITIES/PUBLIC HAVE SIGHTED A TORNADO NEAR BENTON IN FRANKLIN COUNTY ILLINOIS MOVING TO THE EAST. PERSONS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY..ESPECIALLY IN AND NEAR BENTON ILLINOIS. 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 AND 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, Jul 1, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 235 PM CDT TUE JUL 01 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 325 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI..SOUTH ILLINOIS AND WEST KENTUCKY... AT 230 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTH ILLINOIS..WITH A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER WEST KENTUCKY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE 20 MILES WIDE WHICH EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOURI WHICH IS NEAR PERRYVILLE IN PERRY COUNTY MISSOURI THROUGH MARION ILLINOIS TO 25 MILES EAST OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE THE LEADING OR SOUTH EDGE OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDS NORTH INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS..PERIODS OF HEAVY..RAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS AN AREA. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WJEATHER APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISIOS OR RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RAMSDELL
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 235 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS ..ALL OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND A PART OF NORTHWEST KENTUCKY..UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 230 PM CDT..THERE WERE SEVERAL LARGE..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH EAST ILLINOIS..AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. IN SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS..THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORMS..WITH REPORTED STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM FAIRFIELD..IN WAYNE COUNTY .. TO MARION. IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST EAST OF THE WABASH RIVER..FROM PRINCETON TO THE VICINITY OF MT. VERNON../.THESE WERE MOVING TOWARD EVANSVILLE AT ABOUT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. IN WESTERN KENTUCKY..STRONG THUNDERSTOMS WERE FROM OWENSBORO TO HAWES- VILLE..AND IN THE GREATER LOUISVILLE AREA. WILLIAMS
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 325 PM CDT TUE JUL 01 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 325 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI..SOUTH ILLINOIS AND WEST KENTUCKY... AT 325 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTH ILLINOIS..WITH ONE SHOWER IN WEST KENTUCKY NEAR MURRAY. IN SOUTH ILLINOIS..THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EXTENDED FROM HARDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS WHICH IS 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY..TO NEAR EVANSVILLE INDIANA AND NORTH TO NEAR SALEM IN MARION COUNTY ILLINOIS. IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI..THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST LOUIS TO 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST LOUIS MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE DECREASING SLIGHTLY IN INTENSITY BUT SPREADING IN AREA COVERED AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WJEATHER APPROACH. REMEMBER..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RAMSDELL
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 4:35 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 425 PM CDT TUE JUL 01 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 325 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI..SOUTH ILLINOIS AND WEST KENTUCKY... AT 420 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT PADUCAH KENTUCKY INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PREVIOUSLY IN THE EASTERN PART OF SOUTH ILLINOIS HAD MOVED MOSTLY OUT OF THE STATE. HOWEVER THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI HAD SPREAD INTO WESTERN PARTS OF SOUTH ILLINOIS. IN SOUTH ILLINOIS..THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MOST OF WASHINGTON..PERRY AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES. IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI..THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF POPLAR BLUFF IN BUTLER COUNTY..OVER WAYNE AND BOLLINGER COUNTIES AND SHOULD BE APPROACHING CAPE GIRARDEAU AND STODDARD COUNTY AREAS WITHIN THE HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS AN AREA. DUE TO THE RELATIVLY FAST FORWARD MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS..DAMAGING WINDS IN THE 40 MILE AN HOUR RANGE ARE PROBABLE. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RAMSDELL
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 4:40 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 335 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS ..ALL OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND A PART OF NORTHWEST KENTUCKY..UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 430 PM CDT..THERE WERE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS..A FEW OF THEM STRONG IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA..SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN OWENSBORO KENTUCKY AND TELL CITY INDIANA..ALSO ONE NEAR CORYDON KENTUCKY..TO THE SOUTH OF HENDERSON. IN ILLINOIS THERE WAS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCE- VILLE. IN ADDITION TO THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THERE WERE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OF LESSER INTENSITY THROUGHOUT THE TRI-STATE AREA..AND SEVERAL AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN. . ALL OF THE SHOWERS..THUNDERSTORMS AND AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THERE WAS A GENERAL DECREASE IN THE INTENSITIES OF MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 330 AND 430 PM CDT. WILLIAMS
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 4:41 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 440 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS ..ALL OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND A PART OF NORTHWEST KENTUCKY..UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 430 PM CDT..THERE WERE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS..A FEW OF THEM STRONG IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA..SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN OWENSBORO KENTUCKY AND TELL CITY INDIANA..ALSO ONE NEAR CORYDON KENTUCKY..TO THE SOUTH OF HENDERSON. IN ILLINOIS THERE WAS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCE- VILLE. IN ADDITION TO THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THERE WERE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OF LESSER INTENSITY THROUGHOUT THE TRI-STATE AREA..AND SEVERAL AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN. . ALL OF THE SHOWERS..THUNDERSTORMS AND AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THERE WAS A GENERAL DECREASE IN THE INTENSITIES OF MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 330 AND 430 PM CDT. WILLIAMS
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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.