May 31, 2013 0600 UTC Day 1 Convective Outlook | |||||||||||||
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Probabilistic to Categorical Outlook Conversion Table |
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Probabilistic Tornado Graphic | |||||||||||||
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Probability of a tornado within 25 miles of a point. Hatched Area: 10% or greater probability of EF2 - EF5 tornadoes within 25 miles of a point. |
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Probabilistic Damaging Wind Graphic | |||||||||||||
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Probability of damaging thunderstorm winds or wind gusts of 50 knots or higher within 25 miles of a point. Hatched Area: 10% of greater probability of wind gusts 65 knots or greater within 25 miles of a point. |
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Probabilistic Large Hail Graphic | |||||||||||||
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Probability of hail 1" or larger within 25 miles of a point. Hatched Area: 10% or greater probability of hail 2" or larger within 25 miles of a point. |
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SPC AC 310608 DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK CORR 1 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0108 AM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013 VALID 311200Z - 011200Z ...THERE IS A MDT RISK OF SVR TSTMS PORTIONS OK...EXTREME SERN KS...EXTREME SWRN MO...EXTREME NWRN AR... ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ELSEWHERE FROM NW TX/SWRN OK REGION TO PORTIONS SRN WI AND LOWER MI... CORRECTED FOR TYPO IN HEADER ...SYNOPSIS... MAIN MID-UPPER LEVEL INFLUENCE ON DAY-1 SVR POTENTIAL WILL BE CYCLONE NOW LOCATED OVER SD...FCST TO MEANDER SLOWLY ENEWD OVER MN BY 1/12Z. THIS WILL SUPPORT BROAD BELT OF CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT FROM NRN ROCKIES ACROSS S-CENTRAL PLAINS TO UPPER GREAT LAKES...INFUSED WITH ONLY MINOR VORTICITY LOBES. HOWEVER...THOSE PERTURBATIONS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO KEEP HEIGHT CHANGES NEUTRAL TO SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE OVER MOST OF SVR OUTLOOK AREA DURING 31/18Z-01/06Z TIME FRAME. ASSOCIATED/PRIMARY SFC CYCLONE SHOULD BECOME NEARLY STACKED WITH LOW ALOFT THROUGHOUT PERIOD. BY 1/00Z...COLD FRONT SHOULD EXTEND FROM OCCLUSION TRIPLE POINT OVER CENTRAL MN...ENE OF MAIN LOW...SSWWD ACROSS NWRN MO AND SERN KS...BECOMING QUASISTATIONARY SWWD ACROSS NRN THROUGH SWRN OK. FRONT SHOULD INTERSECT DRYLINE OVER W-CENTRAL/SWRN OK DURING AFTERNOON...WITH THE INTERSECTION POINT BACKING SWWD AS DRYLINE RETREATS IN EVENING. LATE-AFTN DRYLINE SHOULD EXTEND FROM FRONT SWWD ACROSS W-CENTRAL TX INTO BIG BEND REGION...LIKELY BACKING THROUGH PERMIAN BASIN AFTER DARK. SECONDARY SFC LOW -- REINFORCED BY INTENSE INSOLATION/HEATING FROM THERE SWWD INTO DRY SECTOR -- SHOULD FORM INVOF DRYLINE/FRONT TRIPLE POINT BY LATE AFTN. ...OK TO OZARKS... GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES...SOME POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT...AND VERY LARGE/DESTRUCTIVE HAIL WILL BE IN THIS CORRIDOR FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. QUASISTATIONARY FRONTAL ZONE -- PERHAPS REINFORCED BY OUTFLOW FROM EARLIER CONVECTION OVER PORTIONS KS/MO...WILL BE PRIMARY FOCUS FOR TSTM DEVELOPMENT. INITIAL DISCRETE OR SEMI-DISCRETE MODES DURING AFTERNOON SHOULD OFFER HAIL AOA 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER IN SOME LOCALES...AMIDST EXTREMELY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS. UPPER 60S TO LOW 70S F DEW POINTS AND STEEP MIDLEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL SUPPORT DEEPLY BUOYANT PROFILE WITH MLCAPE 4000-5500 J/KG...AMIDST 45-55 KT EFFECTIVE SHEAR MAGNITUDE. DISCRETE PROPAGATION IS POSSIBLE WITH TIME...SWWD ALONG BOUNDARY TO SFC LOW...EXTENDING INTO LOW-LEVEL SHEAR ENVIRONMENT THAT BECOMES MORE FAVORABLE DURING 31/23Z-01/03Z TIME FRAME. SECONDARY SFC LOW DEVELOPMENT SHOULD YIELD BACKED LOW-LEVEL WINDS ACROSS OK WARM SECTOR...COMBINING WITH INCREASING 1-2 KM AGL FLOW AROUND 00Z-03Z TO INCREASE BOTH EFFECTIVE SHEAR AND HODOGRAPH SIZE. EFFECTIVE SRH VALUES 300-500 J/KG ARE POSSIBLE WHILE INFLOW PARCELS STILL ARE SFC-BASED. TORNADO THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...BUT COMPLEX OF STG-SVR TSTMS MAY PERSIST AND SHIFT EWD TO ENEWD ACROSS PORTIONS ERN OK AND OZARKS. ...MS VALLEY TO UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION... SCATTERED TO LOCALLY NUMEROUS TSTMS ARE EXPECTED IN ONE OR TWO SW-NE CORRIDORS ACROSS THIS REGION AND MOVE NEWD TO ENEWD. EARLY-PERIOD CONVECTION OVER KS/MO WILL COMPLICATE SVR POTENTIAL VIA BOTH 1. ITS OWN EVOLUTION THROUGH DAY...WITH POTENTIAL FOR ONGOING CONVECTION TO MOVE NEWD ACROSS IA/IL/WI AND INTENSIFY UPON ENCOUNTERING DIURNALLY DESTABILIZED AIR MASS...AND 2. ITS OUTFLOW AND CLOUD/PRECIP COVER FARTHER SW ACROSS PORTIONS IL/MO. SPECIFIC LOCATION/TIMING OF RESULTING OUTFLOW/DIFFERENTIAL-HEATING BOUNDARY OR BOUNDARIES OVER THIS REGION REMAINS UNCERTAIN ATTM. WHILE CONDITIONALLY REDUCING POTENTIAL FOR SUBSTANTIAL FRONTAL CONVECTION...BOUNDARY TRAILING FROM EARLY TSTM COMPLEX SHOULD HELP TO FOCUS DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THIS AREA AHEAD OF SFC COLD FRONT. FLOW ALOFT WILL INCLUDE STG DIRECTIONAL COMPONENT PARALLEL TO BOTH FRONT AND ANY SUCH PREFRONTAL BOUNDARY...INDICATING QUICK EVOLUTION TO QUASI-LINEAR CONVECTIVE MODES. AS SUCH...PREDOMINANT THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND...WITH SPORADIC AND MOSTLY MRGL SVR HAIL...AND A FEW TORNADOES POSSIBLE IN QLCS/BOW/LEWP FORMATIONS. AT LEAST MRGLLY FAVORABLE DEEP-SHEAR FIELDS...DIABATIC SFC HEATING...RICH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE...AND LACK OF STG CAPPING MAY ENABLE MIX OF DISCRETE TO CLUSTERED MULTICELL AND SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT IN WARM SECTOR BETWEEN AR AND LOWER MI AS WELL...WITH ACCOMPANYING HAIL/TORNADO RISK. ..EDWARDS.. 05/31/2013 CLICK TO GET WUUS01 PTSDY1 PRODUCT NOTE: THE NEXT DAY 1 OUTLOOK IS SCHEDULED BY 1300Z |