Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 1987, 8:19 PM CDT for Clinton County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1987, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1987, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clinton 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 3791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1341 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 KSDF 100119
TORSDF
KYC053-100200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
919 PM EDT SUN AUG 9 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
...CLINTON
SHORTLY AFTER 9PM EDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND IN
SHIPLEY...43 MILES NORTH OF CROSSVILLE TENNESSEE.
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 UNDER 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.
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...REMEMBER...
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WIND. LEAVE YOUR CAR AND GOc TO A STRONG
BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR
LOW SPOT...LIE FLAT AND COVER YOUR HEAD.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, Aug 9, 3:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 435PM EDT SUN AUG 9 1987 AT 435PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTH KENTUCKY. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM\ MAYSVILLE ON THE OHIO RIVER NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON SOUTHWEST TO NEAR OWENSBORO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL ENTER THE CENTRAL BLUEGRASS REGION AROUND 530PM EDT BRINGING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 630PM EDT SUN AUG 9 1987 AT 630PM EDT RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORM GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH WERE RECORDED IN LEXINGTON KENTUCKY SHORTLY AFTER 6PM EDT. ANOTHER LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS FORMING FROM NEAR MAYSVILLE ON THE OHIO RIVER NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON SOUTHWEST TO NEAR BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE CENTRAL BLUEGRASS REGION AFFECTING LEXINGTON AROUND 7PM EDT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE COMMON WITH MANY OF THE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 6:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 705PM EDT SUN AUG 9 1987 AT 705PM EDT A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR MAYSVILLE ON THE OHIO RIVER SOUTHWEST TO NEAR LEXINGTON ON TO BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIES RAINFALL OVER SCOTT AND FAYETTE COUNTIES WITH OTHER HEAVY STORMS OVER WOODFORD AND MERCER COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY. STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AND PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN WITH STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 7:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 800 PM EDT SUN AUG 9 1987 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PUSH INTO SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY AT 745 PM EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN PULASKI...ROCKCASTLE AND NORTHERN LAURAL COUNTIES. THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH LINCOLN AND CASEY COUNTIES AROUND 730 PM THIS EVENING. THE STANFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND ...ESTIMATED AT 40 TO 45 MPH IN STANFORD...30 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. IN CASEY COUNTY...POLICE IN LIBERTY...40 MILES WEST OF LONDON REPORTED TREE BRANCHES DOWN AND SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN. THESE STROMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH EAST ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. KLEIN
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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.