STORM PREDICTION CENTER...NWS/NCEP...NORMAN OK
DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK...REF AWIPS GRAPHIC PGWE46 KWNS.
VALID 301300Z - 011200Z
THERE IS A MDT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS CNTRL/ERN KS...EXTREME SERN
NEB...SRN IA...NRN MO AND NRN IL TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM
40 WNW BEH 45 SE CGX 10 ESE UIN 55 SSW SZL 20 NNW BVO 30 NNW PNC
25 ENE HUT 20 NW SLN 20 NNE CNK 10 N BIE 15 SE OMA 25 NNW DSM
15 S JVL 40 WNW BEH.
THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM
20 NNW DRT 30 NW BWD 20 SE FSI 40 SSW END 40 WSW HUT 50 NNE DDC
40 ENE HLC 40 ENE OLU 45 WSW LNR 45 N GRR 65 NNE MTC ...CONT...
30 NNE BUF 35 NNE BFD 30 N LBE 15 NNW PKB 35 SSE CMH 30 ESE IND
40 S MTO 30 SW BLV 35 SSW TBN 15 ENE FYV 30 SW PGO 65 E ACT
20 N NIR 25 SSE LRD.
GEN TSTMS ARE FCST TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 25 ESE PNS
40 WSW SEM 20 NW BHM 20 E MKL 15 WSW DYR 10 SSE ARG 25 ENE LIT
20 NE ELD 45 NW BTR 20 WNW BVE ...CONT... 15 SSE P07 55 SSW CDS
25 NW LBL 40 SSE LIC 20 NW GUC 60 WNW 4HV 35 SSE U31 10 SSW OTH
...CONT... 60 NW 4OM 55 WNW GEG 20 NW 3TH 3HT 55 NNW REJ 25 NW PIR
25 ESE MSP APN ...CONT... 15 ENE EFK 35 E UCA 15 N AVP 10 ENE ACY.
...SYNOPSIS...
WRN STATES UPPER TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO RETROGRADE SOMEWHAT TODAY AS
A MODEST SPEED MAX MOVES FROM THE DESERTS THIS MORNING INTO THE
CNTRL PLAINS AND UPPER MIDWEST BY TONIGHT. AT THE SURFACE...A WEAK
LOW WILL DEVELOP OVER ECNTRL KS AND MOVE NEWD TOWARD NRN IL THIS
EVENING. FRONT NOW FROM OH VLY-NRN MO-NRN KS WILL MOVE NWD AS A
WARM FRONT INTO THE GREAT LAKES-NRN IL-SRN IA-SERN NEB THIS
AFTERNOON WITH A DRYLINE SHARPENING FROM THE LOW SWD INTO CNTRL OK-
CNTRL TX. THE FRONT AND DRYLINE WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR TSTMS
THROUGH TONIGHT.
...CNTRL/ERN KS NEWD INTO THE UPPER MS VLY AND UPPER OH VLY...
ONGOING STRONG TSTMS FROM THE LWR MO VLY INTO NRN IL ARE LOCATED
WITHIN MAX THETA-E ADVECTION THAT WILL SHIFT NEWD INTO THE GREAT
LAKES REGION/UPPER OH VLY LATER THIS MORNING. ISOLD HAIL OR
PERHAPS DAMAGING WINDS MAY OCCUR WITH STRONGER TSTMS.
ATTENTION THEN TURNS TO THE CNTRL PLAINS BY MID AFTERNOON. AIR
MASS SHOULD RECOVER IN WAKE OF MORNING MCS AS WARM FRONT QUICKLY
RETREATS INTO NERN KS...SERN NEB AND CNTRL IA. HEATING AND NEAR
60F SURFACE DEW POINTS BENEATH STEEP MIDLEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL
CONTRIBUTE TO MLCAPE READINGS IN THE 1500-2000 J/KG RANGE. AS THE
EXIT REGION OF THE DESERT MIDLEVEL JETLET MIGRATES CLOSER TO THE
REGION...INCREASING CONVERGENCE ALONG THE WARM FRONT/BOUNDARIES
SHOULD ERODE CINH AND LEAD TO TSTM INITIATION FROM NERN KS INTO
SERN NEB AND SWRN IA BY MID AFTERNOON.
SOMEWHAT WEAK DEEP LAYER SHEAR WILL INCREASE AS THE SPEED MAX
APPROACHES WITH VALUES MORE THAN SUFFICIENT FOR SUPERCELLS.
KINEMATIC/THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS SUGGEST POTENTIAL FOR ALL FACETS
OF SEVERE POSSIBILITIES...WITH VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND
PROBABILITIES THE HIGHEST. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CROSS-OVER OF LOW-
MIDLEVEL FLOW SHOULD BE CONFINED TO NRN MO-NRN IL-NRN IND...BUT
GIVEN THE MYRIAD OF BOUNDARIES AND POTENTIAL FOR BACKED LOW LEVEL
FLOW INVOF OF SURFACE LOW...A TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT
ANYWHERE IN THE MDT RISK AREA.
ACTIVITY WILL CONGEAL INTO ONE OR MORE MCS/S AND THRIVE ON SSWLY
LLJ OVERNIGHT. SEVERE THREATS /HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS/ WILL SHIFT
ACROSS PARTS OF SRN LOWER MI-NWRN OH-NRN IND-NRN IL-NRN MO
OVERNIGHT.
...CNTRL OK SWD INTO SCNTRL TX...
THERE WILL LIKELY BE WEAK SUBSIDENCE BEHIND A DEPARTING 700 MB
SHORTWAVE TROUGH MIGRATING NEWD ACROSS OK/NRN TX THROUGH EARLY
AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...WEAK UPPER DIFFLUENT PATTERN WILL RESUME
LATER THIS AFTERNOON...THOUGH STRONGER UPPER SUPPORT WILL REMAIN
NORTH OF THE REGION. DRYLINE SHOULD MIX EWD INTO CNTRL OK-CNTRL TX
BY 20-22 UTC AND CINH MAY WEAKEN SUFFICIENTLY FOR ISOLD/WDLY
SCATTERED TSTMS TO DEVELOP BY 00 UTC. BY MID AFTERNOON...VERTICAL
SHEAR SHOULD BE JUST ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SUPERCELLS WITH MLCAPES OF
2000-2500 J/KG. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE GIVEN
TSTM DEVELOPMENT. THERE COULD ALSO BE AN ISOLD TORNADO...
PARTICULARLY ACROSS CNTRL/NRN TX WHERE AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WILL BE
PRESENT FROM OVERNIGHT CONVECTION. TSTMS WILL MOVE OFF THE DRYLINE
AND MOVE TOWARD ERN OK AND THE I-35 CORRIDOR IN TX DURING THE MID-
LATE EVENING BEFORE WEAKENING.
..RACY/TAYLOR.. 04/30/03
NOTE: THE NEXT DAY 1 OUTLOOK IS SCHEDULED FOR 1630Z
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