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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY

May 24, 1987Jefferson County, Kentucky; Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1987, 8:10 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Kentucky; Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 1987, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1987, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, KY

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 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 KSDF 250207
TORSDF
KYC029-111-INC061-250315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1010 PM EDT SUN MAY 24 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
          ...BULLITT...JEFFERSON
IN SOUTH INDIANA
          ...HARRISON
 
AS OF 10 PM EDT...NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS HAD BEEN REPORTED DURING THE
PAST HOUR OVER HARDIN COUNTY FROM AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
THAT EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE TO 20 MILES TO THE
SOUTH.
 
THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTH...INTO THE LOUISVILLE AREA
DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
GOETSCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt	3 hr
May 24, 9:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hardin	50 min
May 24, 11:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	45 min
May 24, 10:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	66 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 1987 Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 1987 Every tornado warning in 1987 Tornadoes in 1987

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.