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MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1924
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0827 PM CDT TUE AUG 09 2011
AREAS AFFECTED...PORTIONS TX/OK PANHANDLES...TX SOUTH-PLAINS
REGION...WRN OK...SWRN KS.
CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 757...759...
VALID 100127Z - 100330Z
THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
757...759...CONTINUES.
SVR GUST POTENTIAL STILL EXISTS WITH TSTMS ALONG AND AHEAD OF
EXPANDING OUTFLOW EDGE ACROSS WW REGION...BUT SHOULD DIMINISH
THROUGH REMAINDER EVENING AS PRE-OUTFLOW/PRECONVECTIVE BOUNDARY
LAYER DIABATICALLY STABILIZES. MODIFIED RAOBS AND RUC SOUNDINGS
SUGGEST RELATIVE MIN IN MLCINH..IN CORRIDOR LOCATED ALONG AND JUST N
OF RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM PRIOR MORNING/OVERNIGHT
CONVECTION. THIS BOUNDARY IS LIFTING NWD 10-15 KT ACROSS SERN
PANHANDLE AND SW OK...WITH MOIST AXIS TO ITS N.
HOWEVER...DEFINITION OF BOUNDARY SHOULD WEAKEN WITH TIME...AND
DIABATIC SFC COOLING WILL STRENGTHEN MLCINH. AMIDST WEAK MID-UPPER
FLOW...PROBABILITY APPEARS VERY LOW OF CONVECTION OVER ERN TX
PANHANDLE REGAINING ORGANIZATION AS IT MOVES INTO OK.
MEANWHILE...SVR HAIL PRODUCING TSTMS OVER OK PANHANDLE SHOULD MOVE
INTO SRN PORTIONS WW 759...WITH POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING GUSTS AND
ISOLATED LARGE HAIL REMAINING UNTIL WELL-MIXED SUBCLOUD LAYER
EVIDENT IN 00Z DDC RAOB DIABATICALLY STABILIZES SUBSTANTIALLY FROM
BOTTOM UP.
AS FOR CURRENTLY POSTCONVECTIVE REGION OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL/WRN
PANHANDLES...ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED TSTMS MAY DEVELOP ATOP
OUTFLOW POOL...WHERE ISENTROPIC ASCENT TO LFC IS POSSIBLE IN
ASSOCIATION WITH WRN LIMB OF INTENSIFYING SRN-PLAINS LLJ. MAIN
CONCERN WOULD BE HAIL. WIND THREAT FROM ANY SUCH CONVECTION WOULD
BE LIMITED BY NEAR-SFC STABILITY.
..EDWARDS.. 08/10/2011
ATTN...WFO...OUN...DDC...LUB...AMA...
LAT...LON 34499946 33710156 33830284 36090286 37020175 37700002
37569907 36619935 34499946
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