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MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1312
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0408 AM CDT MON JUN 20 2011
AREAS AFFECTED...PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL IL INTO WRN IND
AND SERN IA
CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 519...
VALID 200908Z - 201015Z
THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 519
CONTINUES.
AN APPARENT DEVELOPING BOW STRUCTURE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL IL WILL BE
MONITORED FOR FURTHER INCREASE IN FORWARD SPEED. ENVIRONMENT IS
CONDUCIVE TO SUPPORT FORWARD PROPAGATION...AND THUS LOCAL WFO
EXTENSION OF WW 519 MAY BE NEEDED SOON INTO PARTS OF CENTRAL
IL...GENERALLY FROM CHRISTIAN TO MCLEAN COUNTIES. IF A FAST MOVING
BOW DOES DEVELOP...THEN A NEW WW MAY BE REQUIRED BY 10-11Z ACROSS
PARTS OF CENTRAL IL INTO WRN/SWRN IND. MEANWHILE...MUCH OF ERN IA
HAS BEEN CONVECTIVE OVERTURNED...BUT NEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS
DEVELOPING OVER SWRN-SRN IA MAY MOVE INTO WRN PARTS OF WW 519...SUCH
THAT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT MAY NOT BE OVER IN THIS PART OF ERN
IA.
AT 845Z...REGIONAL RADAR IMAGERY SHOWED A LINE OF TSTMS THAT
RECENTLY MOVED INTO WEST CENTRAL IL FROM SERN IA/FAR NERN MO AND
EXTENDED FROM MERCER TO HANCOCK COUNTIES IL. THIS LINE HAS BEGUN TO
SHOW INDICATIONS OF A BOWING STRUCTURE WITH THE FORWARD SPEED
INCREASING DURING THE LAST HOUR TO CLOSE TO 40 KT TOWARD THE ESE. A
SECOND BRANCH OF BROAD SRN/CENTRAL PLAINS LLJ EXTENDS INTO THE LOWER
MO/MID MS VALLEYS WITH WAA EXTENDING FROM NRN MO INTO CENTRAL/SRN
IL. THIS COMBINED WITH A DEVELOPING COLD POOL IN THE WAKE OF THE
WEST CENTRAL BOWING STRUCTURE SHOULD AID IN SUPPORTING THIS TSTM
COMPLEX AS IT PROGRESSES ESEWD. A RESERVOIR OF MODERATE INSTABILITY
EXTENDING FROM MO INTO THE REGION DOWNSTREAM OF THE BOW INCREASES
THE CONFIDENCE THAT THIS BOW WILL PERSIST TO THE ESE OF WW 519 BY
10Z.
..PETERS.. 06/20/2011
ATTN...WFO...IND...LOT...ILX...LSX...DVN...DMX...EAX...
LAT...LON 40399251 42329213 42159059 41698906 40798784 40138728
39218743 38828824 39369021 40399251
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