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SPC AC 050551 DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1151 PM CST SAT FEB 04 2006 VALID 061200Z - 071200Z GEN TSTMS ARE FCST TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 60 SSE BPT 25 WSW ESF 25 NNE MLU 35 NE GLH 20 SW UOX 45 NW BHM 30 ENE ATL 50 SE ILM ...CONT... 40 E SGJ 30 ESE GNV 55 NW PIE. ...NO SVR TSTM AREAS FORECAST... ...SYNOPSIS... AMPLIFIED LARGE-SCALE PATTERN IS FORECAST THROUGH THE DAY 2 PERIOD WITH MAIN SYNOPTIC FEATURES BEING CLOSED MID AND UPPER-LEVEL LOW WHICH WILL PERSIST OVER QUEBEC AND REX-TYPE BLOCK FROM THE PACIFIC NW INTO THE ERN PACIFIC. WITHIN THIS BROADER REGIME...SHORTWAVE TROUGH CURRENT DIVING SEWD THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN WILL CONTINUE SEWD THROUGH THE CNTRL/SRN PLAINS ON DAY ONE...AND EVENTUALLY MORE EWD ACROSS THE SERN STATES MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. IN THE LOW-LEVELS...SURFACE LOW ATTENDANT TO THIS SYSTEM WILL BE INITIALLY LOCATED OVER THE LOWER MS VALLEY AT 06/12Z. THIS CYCLONE WILL GENERALLY DEVELOP EWD ACROSS THE GULF COAST STATES MONDAY...INTO THE WRN ATLANTIC BY MONDAY NIGHT. THIS LOW AND IT/S ACCOMPANYING COLD FRONT WILL LIKELY BE THE FOCUS FOR STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE STORMS MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT. ...CNTRL AND ERN GULF COAST... CURRENT SURFACE AND GOES SOUNDER PW OBSERVATIONAL DATA INDICATE THAT POST-FRONTAL HIGH PRESSURE HAS SCOURED LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE SWD INTO THE NRN BAY OF CAMPECHE. GIVEN PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE INTERMOUNTAIN W...IT APPEARS THAT QUALITY LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN WILL BE PROBLEMATIC...EFFECTIVELY LIMITING WARM SECTOR DESTABILIZATION AND DEGREE OF ASSOCIATED SEVERE THREAT. NONETHELESS...CLUSTERS OF MAINLY ELEVATED TSTMS WILL LIKELY BE IN PROGRESS AT THE ONSET OF THE FORECAST MONDAY MORNING OVER THE LOWER MS VALLEY...LARGELY DRIVEN BY LOWER TROPOSPHERIC WAA AND ISENTROPIC ASCENT ALONG SWLY 40-45 KT LLJ. COUPLING OF FORCING ASSOCIATED WITH APPROACHING SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND DIRECT THERMAL CIRCULATION IN ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER-LEVEL JET STREAK WILL MAINTAIN THIS WARM CONVEYOR BELT CONVECTION THROUGH THE PERIOD EWD ACROSS DISCUSSION AREA. DAYTIME HEATING IN CONJUCTION WITH LOW-LEVEL MOISTENING WILL ALLOW SOME THIS CONVECTION TO BECOME PROGRESSIVELY MORE SURFACE-BASED /MAINLY ALONG THE I-10 CORRIDOR/ AS WARM SECTOR BOUNDARY-LAYER SLOWLY DESTABILIZES. CO-LOCATION OF 70-85 KT WLY MID-LEVEL JET ATOP SWLY LOW-LEVEL FLOW WILL RESULT IN VERTICAL SHEAR PROFILES MORE THAN SUFFICIENT FOR EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS AND/OR BOWING STRUCTURES CAPABLE OF ISOLATED TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WINDS. AS MENTIONED ABOVE...LIMITED LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN AND PERHAPS COMPARATIVELY WARMER MID-LEVEL TEMPERATURES ON S SIDE OF JET AXIS COULD CONSIDERABLY REDUCE POTENTIAL PARCEL BUOYANCY ACROSS SYSTEM WARM SECTOR. THUS...ONLY LOW PROBABILITIES WILL BE INCLUDED ATTM. THIS ISOLATED SEVERE THREAT MAY CONTINUE INTO MONDAY NIGHT ACROSS SRN GA AND NRN FL. ..MEAD.. 02/05/2006 ...NOTICE... THE STATION RELATIVE POINTS IN THIS PRODUCT WILL BE DISCONTINUED ON 14 FEBRUARY 2006 BUT WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS: WMO HEADER: AWIPS ID: WUUS01 PTSDY1 WUUS02 PTSDY2 WUUS03 PTSDY3 A SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE ...SCN05-39... PROVIDES DETAILS ON THE TRANSITION. FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS SEE THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS USING LOWER CASE LETTERS: WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/OM/NOTIF.HTM CLICK TO GET WUUS02 PTSDY2 PRODUCT NOTE: THE NEXT DAY 2 OUTLOOK IS SCHEDULED BY 1730Z |