Sep 3, 2010 0730 UTC Day 3 Severe Thunderstorm Outlook
Updated: Fri Sep 3 07:31:57 UTC 2010
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   SPC AC 030730
   
   DAY 3 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK  
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   0230 AM CDT FRI SEP 03 2010
   
   VALID 051200Z - 061200Z
   
   ...SYNOPSIS...
   A PROGRESSIVE/SOMEWHAT AMPLIFIED LARGE SCALE FLOW REGIME WILL
   PREVAIL THROUGH SUNDAY. THE PRIMARY FEATURE OF NOTE WITH RESPECT TO
   DEEP CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL WILL BE AN AMPLIFYING WESTERN STATES
   TROUGH...IN WHICH A REASONABLE NUMERICAL GUIDANCE CONSENSUS SUGGESTS
   WILL CROSS THE GREAT BASIN/INTERMOUNTAIN WEST AND NORTH-CENTRAL
   ROCKIES SUNDAY/SUNDAY NIGHT.
   
   ...NORTH-CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS...
   IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED UPPER TROUGH...APPRECIABLE
   LEE SIDE CYCLOGENESIS IS ANTICIPATED ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS
   ON SUNDAY. IN AN OTHERWISE FAVORABLE KINEMATIC/DYNAMIC SCENARIO...IT
   IS LIKELY THAT MEAGER MOISTURE RETURN/QUALITY IN THE WAKE OF THE
   RECENT COLD FRONT WILL CONSIDERABLY LIMIT SEVERE POTENTIAL ACROSS
   THE NORTH-CENTRAL PLAINS DURING THE PERIOD. A STOUT EASTWARD
   ADVECTING ELEVATED MIXED PLUME WILL SERVE TO CAP MUCH IF NOT ALL OF
   THE WARM SECTOR/TRIPLE POINT VICINITY THROUGH PEAK HEATING. TSTMS
   SHOULD MAINLY BE CONFINED TO THE HIGHER TERRAIN/ROCKIES FRONT RANGE
   AND ADJACENT HIGH PLAINS ALONG/IN THE WAKE OF A GENERALLY
   SOUTHEASTWARD ADVANCING COLD FRONT AMID DEVELOPING UPSLOPE
   TRAJECTORIES/ASSOCIATED MOISTENING. CANNOT CURRENTLY RULE OUT A FEW
   TSTMS CAPABLE OF SEVERE HAIL AND/OR GUSTY WINDS ACROSS WY/SOUTHEAST
   MT INTO WESTERN SD VICINITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. BUT
   GIVEN FORECAST UNCERTAINTIES/AFOREMENTIONED LIMITATIONS...WILL NOT
   INTRODUCE LOW SEVERE PROBABILITIES AT THIS TIME GIVEN WHAT CURRENTLY
   APPEARS TO BE A MARGINAL SCENARIO. TSTMS COULD PROPAGATE
   EASTWARD/POTENTIALLY INCREASE NORTH OF A WARM FRONT SUNDAY NIGHT
   ACROSS THE MIDDLE MO VALLEY AMID AN ELEVATED MOISTURE RETURN
   REGIME...BUT AGAIN CAPPING/INITIALLY LIMITED MOISTURE SHOULD
   PRECLUDE APPRECIABLE SEVERE CONCERNS.
   
   ..GUYER.. 09/03/2010
   
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