Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1987, 3:05 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 13, 1987, 3:05 PM EDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1987, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, KY
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 3:32 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Fayette, KY |
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
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 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, Jul 13, 2:10 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 205 PM EDT MON JUL 13 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 8 PM EDT THE EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN KENTUCKY AT 2PM. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A LINE FROM TOMPKINSVILLE IN MONROE COUNTY NORTH TO CORYDON IN HARRISON COUNTY INDIANA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN KENTUCKY FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. OVER THE REST OF THE STATE WARM AND HUMID WEATHER WILL PREVAIL. AMMERMAN*
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:45 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 240 PM EDT MON JUL 13 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TILL 8 PM EDT TONIGHT... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DOTTED EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY AT 2 35 PM. RADAR SHOWED A NORTH SOUTH LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN LOUISVILLE AND LEXINGTON MOVING EAST A 25 MPH. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 43 MPH AT AIRPORT IN LOUISVILLE AS IT PASSED OVER. ALSO BRIEF TORRENT IAL RAIN HAS OCCURRED WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WEST OF LEXINGTON WILL MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF FRANKLIN..ANDERSON AND BOYLE COUNTIES BY ABOUT 3 PM EDT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 3:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette | 55 min |
| Jul 13, 3:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Franklin, Scott | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel, Whitley | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 6:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 7:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson, Spencer | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 7:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Shelby | 2 hr |
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.