Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1987, 3:15 PM CDT for McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1987, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1987, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCracken 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
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 5, 9:36 AM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 935 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO WEAKEN... THIS MORNING AT 935 CDT THERE WERE STILL SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE KENTUCKY/TENNESSEE STATE LINE. WHILE MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN COVERS THE REMAINDER OF THE WEST HALF OF KENTUCKY. EXCEPT FOR ONE OR TWO SMALL PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN .. SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS WERE JUST ABOUT CLEAR OF RAINFALL. THOSE STRONG STORMS DOWN ALONG THE KENTUCKY/TENNESSEE STATE LINE WERE FROM SOUTH OF HOPKINSVILLE OVER TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN. THEY ARE STILL CAPAABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN/ DANGEROUS LBIGHTNING/AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE AREA WAS STILL MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN SIZE AND STRENGTH. FIELDS
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1215 PM CDT SUN JULY 5 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT NOON...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THEY WERE IN A 35 MILE WIDE BAND CENTERED ON A LINE FROM BELLFLOWER IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY MISSOURI TO SALEM IN DENT COUNTY MISSOURI THEN TO GAINSVILLE IN OZARK COUNTY MISSOURI. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS SHOULD REACH THE WAPPAPELLO RECREATION AREA AND THE CITY OF POLAR BUFF MISSOURI BETWEEN 1:15 AND 1:30 PM CDT. PERSONS AT OTHER RECREATIONAL AREA...EASPECIALLY ON WATER...AND EVERYONE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE ADVANCING STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SHORE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 115 PM CDT SUN JULY 5 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 1:00 PM...A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE LINE WAS FROM HUNTER IN CARTER COUNTY THROUGH NORTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY TO FARMINGTON IN ST FRANCES COUNTY...ALL IN MISSOURI. THIS LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THEY WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST BUTLER COUNTY BY 1:30 PM CDT. ALSO THEY WILL SPREAD OVER WAYNE AND INTO BOLLINGER COUNTIES IN MISSOURI BY 2:00 PM CDT. THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTING.. .STRONG WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. PERONS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE APPROACHING STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SHORE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:26 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 215 PM CDT SUN JULY 5 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 2:00 PM CDT...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND WESTERN ILLINOIS. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE SHOWER AERA WAS FROM BERNIE IN SOUTHERN STODDARD COUNTY MISSOURI TO CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOUIR THEN NORTH TO CARYLE IN CLINTON COUNTY ILLINOIS. JACKSON IN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY MISSOURI REPORTED HEAVY RAIN WITH WIND 40 TO 50 MPH AT 2:15 PM CDT. ALSO WIND WAS REPORTED TO BE BETTER THEN 50 MPH IN SOUTHERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY MISSOURI. SMALL LIMBS DOWN AND SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THEY WILL MOVE INTO NEW MADRID AND MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES IN MISSOURI...AND INTO ALEXANDER...UNION AND WESTERN WILLIAMSO!N COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS BY 2:00 PM CDT. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSBILE WARNINGS. SHORE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:34 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 215 PM CDT SUN JULY 5 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... AT 2:00 PM CDT...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND WESTERN ILLINOIS. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE SHOWER AERA WAS FROM BERNIE IN SOUTHERN STODDARD COUNTY MISSOURI TO CAPE GIRARDEAU MISSOUIR THEN NORTH TO CARYLE IN CLINTON COUNTY ILLINOIS. JACKSON IN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY MISSOURI REPORTED HEAVY RAIN WITH WIND 40 TO 50 MPH AT 2:15 PM CDT. ALSO WIND WAS REPORTED TO BE BETTER THEN 50 MPH IN SOUTHERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY MISSOURI. SMALL LIMBS DOWN AND SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THEY WILL MOVE INTO NEW MADRID AND MISSISSIPPI COUNTIES IN MISSOURI...AND INTO ALEXANDER...UNION AND &WESTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS BY 3:00 PM CDT. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSBILE WARNINGS. SHORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston | 45 min |
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.