May 8, 2006 1730 UTC Day 2 Convective Outlook Updated: Mon May 8 20:27:41 UTC 2006 Probabilistic to Categorical Outlook Conversion Table (Effective Feb 14, 2006).
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SPC AC 082026 DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK CORR 1 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0326 PM CDT MON MAY 08 2006 VALID 091200Z - 101200Z ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS PARTS OF THE SRN PLAINS AND ACROSS THE LOWER MS VALLEY... CORRECTED FOR NDFD PROBS ...SYNOPSIS... AN ACTIVE SEVERE WEATHER PATTERN APPEARS TO BE SETTING UP FOR TUESDAY. DETAILS WITH REGARD TO WHERE GREATEST SEVERE POTENTIAL WILL EVOLVE ARE NOT YET CLEAR. HOWEVER...CHANCES FOR SEVERE STORMS SHOULD INCREASE FROM THE TX/OK PNHDLS EWD ACROSS THE OZARKS DURING THE DAY AND EVENING TUESDAY. A NRN BRANCH MID/UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL UNDERGO AMPLIFICATION ACROSS THE NRN AND CNTRL PLAINS THROUGH TUESDAY AS A NUMBER OF SMALLER SCALE PERTURBATIONS ROTATE THROUGH THE LARGE SCALE CYCLONIC FLOW FROM THE ROCKIES TO THE MS VALLEY. AT THE SURFACE...VARIOUS MCS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL BE INTERSPERSED WITH SYNOPTIC FRONTAL ZONES FROM THE SRN PLAINS/OZARKS NWD TO THE UPPER MS VALLEY. LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE WAS IN RELATIVELY GOOD AGREEMENT THAT ONE MCS WILL BE LOCATED OVER THE OZARKS EARLY TUESDAY WITHIN WARM CONVEYOR BELT AHEAD OF LEE-TROUGH AND SRN PLAINS COLD FRONT. ANOTHER MCS MAY BE ONGOING EARLY IN THE PERIOD ACROSS MN/WI NEAR A MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH BEING EJECTED EWD AHEAD OF NEXT STRONG UPSTREAM SYSTEM DEVELOPING EAST FROM THE ROCKIES/HIGH PLAINS. SYNOPTIC FRONTS WILL ALSO INCLUDE A WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM THE MCS OVER ERN OK/OZARKS SEWD TO THE DEEP SOUTH...AND A SECONDARY COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE NRN BRANCH SYSTEM DEVELOPING SEWD ACROSS THE NRN/CNTRL PLAINS. LARGE SCALE HEIGHT FALLS AND DIFFERENTIAL HEATING WILL REINFORCE THE SRN PLAINS COLD FRONT FROM SERN CO TO THE NRN TX PNHDL AND INTO NWRN OK BY LATE AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE...DRYLINE WILL SHARPEN OVER THE ERN TX PNHDL AS TRIPLE POINT LOW EVOLVES ACROSS NWRN TX/SWRN OK. STRENGTHENING MESOSCALE FORCING ASSOCIATED WITH THESE FEATURES...COUPLED WITH INCREASING INSTABILITY AND SHEAR...SHOULD PROMOTE WIDESPREAD SEVERE TSTM ACTIVITY FROM THE SRN PLAINS TO THE LOWER MS VALLEY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. ...SRN PLAINS/OZARKS EAST ACROSS THE LOWER MS VALLEY... MCS EVOLUTION ACROSS THE PLAINS THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING WILL PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN SEVERE WEATHER FORMATION AND STORM MODE ACROSS PARTS OF OK AND AR LATER TUESDAY AFTERNOON. GIVEN THAT THE MCS HAS YET TO FORM...AND CONVECTIVE INHIBITION ACROSS THE WARM SECTOR MAY BE QUITE STRONG WITH 700MB TEMPERATURES AROUND 10C...A LOWER CONFIDENCE FORECAST SUGGESTS MAINTAINING ONLY A SLGT RISK AT THIS TIME. LATEST GUIDANCE DOES SUGGEST THAT AN MCS OR TWO WILL BE ONGOING OVER THE MID-MS VLY SWWD INTO THE OZARKS. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY SHOULD REINFORCE THE WARM FRONT ACROSS SRN OK SEWD ACROSS SRN AR. DESTABILIZATION AHEAD OF THE MCS...AND ALONG THE WARM FRONT TO THE TN VALLEY...COULD RESULT IN STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS CONTINUING... OR REDEVELOPING...EWD ACROSS THESE AREAS THROUGH THE DAY. DAMAGING WINDS...SOME HAIL...AND PERHAPS EVEN A TORNADO OR TWO COULD OCCUR WITH THIS ACTIVITY. THE SWRN FLANK OF THE MCS WILL PROBABLY WEAKEN AS CONVECTIVE INHIBITION STRENGTHENS ACROSS THE WARM SECTOR. HOWEVER...STRONG SWLY LLJ WILL CONTINUE TO TRANSPORT VERY UNSTABLE PARCELS ACROSS THE COLD POOL...AND CONVECTIVE CLUSTER WITH SOME HAIL POTENTIAL MAY PERSIST ACROSS PARTS OF AR DURING THE MORNING. SUBSIDENCE AND CAPPING IN WAKE OF THE MCS WILL ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG DESTABILIZATION ACROSS TX/OK THROUGH THE DAY WITH GREATEST CHANCE FOR STORM INITIATION OCCURRING BY AFTERNOON ALONG/NORTH OF REMNANT OUTFLOW...ACROSS WRN AR TO NRN OK. A SECONDARY AREA FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT SHOULD EVOLVE NEAR THE COLD FRONT/DRYLINE TRIPLE POINT...OR NORTH OF THESE FEATURES WHERE INCREASING LARGE SCALE FORCING FROM AMPLIFYING FLOW/HEIGHT FALLS WILL OVERCOME INHIBITION. EFFECTIVE SHEAR WILL BE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT FOR SUPERCELLS WITH VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY ACROSS PARTS OF NRN/ERN OK AND PERHAPS WRN AR...WHERE POST-OUTFLOW/FRONT ELY FLOW WILL RESULT IN ENLARGED HODOGRAPHS. FARTHER SOUTH ALONG ADVANCING DRYLINE...TSTMS WILL LIKELY BE MORE ISOLATED GIVEN STRONG CAP AND WEAKER LARGE SCALE FORCING. EXPECT SEVERAL TSTMS CLUSTERS WILL GROW UPSCALE INTO MCS/S TUE NIGHT/EARLY WED...PROBABLY FROM THE OZARKS INTO THE LWR MS VLY...AND FROM THE SRN HIGH PLAINS ACROSS OK AND NRN TX. GIVEN AVAILABLE INSTABILITY FEEDING INTO THESE STORMS...THREAT FOR HAIL/HIGH WINDS MAY PERSIST WELL AFTER DARK AND INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY. ...UPPER MS VLY... IN WAKE OF MORNING CONVECTION...BOUNDARY LAYER SHOULD RECOVER ALONG/AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE UPPER MS VLY. RESIDUAL SFC DEW POINTS IN THE 50S BENEATH STEEPENING LAPSE RATES ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH APPROACHING LARGE SCALE TROUGH WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR TSTM INITIATION ACROSS PORTIONS OF MN. VERTICAL SHEAR WILL BE WEAK AND GIVEN NATURE OF FORCING...EVOLUTION INTO LINE SEGMENTS IS LIKELY. A COUPLE OF DAMAGING WIND/HAIL EVENTS MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. EXPECT SEVERE THREAT TO WANE DURING THE EVENING HOURS. ..CARBIN.. 05/08/2006 CLICK TO GET WUUS02 PTSDY2 PRODUCT NOTE: THE NEXT DAY 2 OUTLOOK IS SCHEDULED BY 0800Z |