STORM PREDICTION CENTER...NWS/NCEP...NORMAN OK
DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK...REF AWIPS GRAPHIC PGWE46 KWNS.
VALID 091300Z - 101200Z
THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM
30 WNW RST 35 WSW LNR 35 ESE MLI 20 SSE STL 10 NNW TBN 30 NNW SZL
20 W FLV 30 ESE SLN 35 ESE END 45 ENE CSM 20 NW LTS 40 SE LBB
25 SW LBB 45 NW PVW 40 SE EHA 10 N GCK 10 W LBF 65 ENE CDR
65 N PHP 30 NNW MBG 45 NE ATY 30 WNW RST.
GEN TSTMS ARE FCST TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 15 SSW FHU 60 W SAD
45 ESE PRC 40 SE IGM 30 WSW EED 40 SSE DAG 20 WSW DAG 20 N EDW
40 WSW NID 50 ESE FAT 35 NNE FAT 50 NNE MER 65 SE RBL 15 NNE RBL
35 WNW RBL 30 ENE ACV 50 SSW MFR 25 WSW 4LW 55 SSE 4LW 50 NNW LOL
20 S WMC BAM 45 N ENV 40 NNE EVW 25 WNW BPI 55 WSW MQM 30 SSE S80
30 E ALW 35 S EPH 10 SSE SEA 25 NE UIL ...CONT... 75 E MQT
45 NW TVC 25 NE MKE 20 NE CMI 25 ESE PAH 20 WNW MSL 25 NNW BHM
10 S ANB 35 WNW MCN 35 SE CAE 25 WNW HSE ...CONT... 15 SW GPT
35 NNE MSY 20 NNW BTR 30 SW ESF 50 NW POE 15 SSW TYR 25 SSE FTW
35 E ABI 20 SSE SJT 35 NW DRT.
GEN TSTMS ARE FCST TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 20 SSE NEL
30 WNW CXY 15 SSE PSB 15 ESE BFD 15 NNE BUF.
...SYNOPSIS...
A CYCLONIC UPPER FLOW REGIME WILL CONTINUE DURING THE FIRST PART OF
THE WEEK FROM THE PAC NW INTO NEW ENGLAND WITH A BROAD FLAT RIDGE
EXISTING FROM S TX TO THE SERN STATES. SRN EDGE OF A FAIRLY POTENT
MIDLEVEL IMPULSE WILL MOVE FROM THE GREAT LAKES THIS MORNING INTO
NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AS NEXT DISTURBANCE DROPS FROM THE NRN
INTERMOUNTAIN WEST INTO THE CNTRL PLAINS BY TONIGHT. AT THE
SURFACE...LEE TROUGH/LOW OVER THE NRN HIGH PLAINS WILL
STRENGTHEN...MOVING INTO THE UPPER MS VLY BY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING.
A TRAILING DRYLINE/FRONT WILL TRANSLATE SEWD ACROSS THE CNTRL/SRN
PLAINS.
...MID/UPPER MO VLY EWD INTO THE MID/UPPER MS VLY...
UPSTREAM 12 UTC RAOBS AT AMA/DDC SHOW 15-16C H85 DEW POINTS. SSWLY
LLJ OF 30-35 KTS SHOULD MAINTAIN MOISTURE FLUX NEWD INTO THE CNTRL
PLAINS...AND RAPID BOUNDARY LAYER DEW POINT RECOVERY IN SHORT TERM
MODELS SEEM REASONABLE AS THE HIGHER DEW POINTS NEAR H85 MIX TO THE
SURFACE. LBF/AMA/DDC BALLOON DATA ALSO SHOW VERY STEEP MIDLEVEL
LAPSE RATES OF 8-8.5 DEGREES C/KM ATOP THIS MOISTURE...SETTING UP
A POTENTIALLY VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS ACROSS THE CNTRL/SRN PLAINS.
FORCING FOR LARGE SCALE ASCENT SPREADS EWD INTO SD/NEB BY LATE
AFTERNOON...WITHIN EXIT REGION OF 45-50 KT H5 JETLET. LOW LEVEL
MASS FIELDS SHOULD RESPOND WITH STRENGTHENING TRIPLE POINT
CONVERGENCE ALONG THE NEB/SD BORDER LEADING TO TSTM INITIATION.
DEEP LAYER SHEAR WILL BE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT FOR SUPERCELLS AND
MAGNITUDE OF INSTABILITY SUGGESTS THAT VERY LARGE HAIL WILL BE
POSSIBLE. PRESENCE OF MID 60S SURFACE DEW POINTS COINCIDENT WITH
LOCAL BACKING OF THE NEAR SURFACE FLOW INVOF WARM FRONT COULD ALSO
CONTRIBUTE TO A FEW TORNADOES...PARTICULARLY FROM NERN NEB/SERN SD
INTO WRN IA.
MOISTURE FLUX AND WARM ADVECTION CONTINUALLY STRENGTHEN AS SSWLY
LLJ ACCELERATES TO NEARLY 60 KTS LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.
SUPERCELLS WILL LIKELY TRANSITION INTO A MCS...POSSIBLY FORWARD
PROPAGATING ACROSS IA/NRN MO TOWARD THE MS RVR BY TUESDAY MORNING
WITH DAMAGING WINDS. KINEMATIC AND THERMODYNAMIC SET-UP APPEARS
FAVORABLE FOR UPDRAFT DEVELOPMENT UPSTREAM INTO THE STRONGER CAP
FARTHER SW ACROSS NRN MO AND PERHAPS NERN KS...WITH A CONTINUED
HAIL/DAMAGING WIND AND HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT.
...CNTRL/WRN KS INTO NWRN OK/ERN TX PNDL...
MASS FIELDS SEEM TO POINT TO HIGHEST CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL OCCURING
WELL NORTH IN THE CNTRL PLAINS OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER...THERE WILL BE
A CONDITIONAL LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND THREAT ALONG THE LEE
TROUGH/DRYLINE FROM NCNTRL/CNTRL/WRN KS ACROSS NWRN OK INTO THE ERN
TX PNHDL. AIR MASS WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE...BUT UNCERTAINTY
EXISTS ON HOW STRONG THE DRYLINE CIRCULATION WILL BE. CINH SHOULD
HOLD OVER MOST LOCATIONS...THOUGH SOME SHORT TERM MODEL MEMBERS
SHOW SURFACE BASED INITIATION ACROSS SWRN KS/NWRN OK AROUND 00 UTC.
GIVEN A TSTM...DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND THERMODYNAMIC SITUATION WOULD
LEAD TO SUPERCELLS WITH VERY LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE.
...INTERIOR NEW ENGLAND...
THERE WILL BE A CONDITIONAL LOW PROBABILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS OR
ISOLD MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL ACROSS INTERIOR NEW ENGLAND LATE THIS
MORNING AND AFTERNOON. WARM ADVECTION REGIME HAS MAINTAINED CLOUDS
OVERNIGHT AND 12 UTC SOUNDINGS SHOW MEAGER MIDLEVEL LAPSE RATES.
BUT...IF BINOVC CAN DEVELOP...POCKETS OF BOUNDARY LAYER HEATING
BENEATH COOL 5H TEMPERATURES AND LARGE SCALE ASCENT FROM PASSING
SHORTWAVE MAY CONTRIBUTE TO BANDS OF TSTMS. FAIRLY UNIDIRECTIONAL
FLOW PATTERN COULD ENCOURAGE SMALL SCALE BOW EVOLUTION GIVING WIND
DAMAGE ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL.
..RACY/NADEN.. 06/09/03
NOTE: THE NEXT DAY 1 OUTLOOK IS SCHEDULED FOR 1630Z
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