Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1987, 3:38 PM EDT for Franklin County, Scott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1987, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1987, 4:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, KY, Scott 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KLEX 131938
TORLEX
KYC073-209-132045-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
338 PM EDT MON JUL 13 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
...FRANKLIN...SCOTT
AT 338PM EDT FRANKLIN DES REPORTED A CONFIRMED TORNADO ON THE GROUND
IN FRANKFORT KENTUCKY 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. THE TORNADO IS
MOVING EAST AND WILL POSSIBLY ENTER SCOTT COUNTY AROUND 400PM EDT.}
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO THE BASEMENT...
OR...GO TO AN INTERIOR WINDOWLESS HALLWAY...ROOM...OR CLOSET ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDEYR SOMETHING STURDY AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
LEAVE CARS AND MOBILE HOMES AND MOVE TO A REINFORCED BUILDING...
OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH. YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE.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 13, 2:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 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, 53 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:06 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 305 PM EDT MON JUL 13 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 8 PM EDT THE EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER MOST OF KENTUCKY AT 3PM. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER CLARK COUNTY INDIANA AND OVER HENRY AND SCOTT COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND POSSI1BLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE STATE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. OVER THE REST OF THE STATE WARM AND HUMID WEATHER WILL PREVAIL. AMMERMAN
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, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.