Dec 15, 2013 1300 UTC Day 1 Convective Outlook
Updated: Sun Dec 15 12:39:39 UTC 2013 (20131215 1300Z Day 1 shapefile | 20131215 1300Z Day 1 KML)
Probabilistic to Categorical Outlook Conversion Table
Categorical Graphic
20131215 1300 UTC Day 1 Outlook Graphic
Probabilistic Tornado Graphic
20131215 1300 UTC Day 1 Tornado Probabilities Graphic
Probability of a tornado within 25 miles of a point.
Hatched Area: 10% or greater probability of EF2 - EF5 tornadoes within 25 miles of a point.
Probabilistic Damaging Wind Graphic
20131215 1300 UTC Day 1 Damaging Wind Probabilities Graphic
Probability of damaging thunderstorm winds or wind gusts of 50 knots or higher within 25 miles of a point.
Hatched Area: 10% of greater probability of wind gusts 65 knots or greater within 25 miles of a point.
Probabilistic Large Hail Graphic
20131215 1300 UTC Day 1 Large Hail Probabilities Graphic
Probability of hail 1" or larger within 25 miles of a point.
Hatched Area: 10% or greater probability of hail 2" or larger within 25 miles of a point.
Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
No Risk Areas Forecast
   SPC AC 151235

   DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK  
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   0635 AM CST SUN DEC 15 2013

   VALID 151300Z - 161200Z

   ...NO SVR TSTM AREAS FORECAST...

   ...SYNOPSIS...
   IN MID-UPPER LEVELS...BROADLY CYCLONIC FLOW IS FCST TO BE MAINTAINED
   THROUGH PERIOD BETWEEN ROCKIES AND ATLC COAST...WITH RIDGING OVER CA
   AND NWRN MEX.  NRN PORTION OF EMBEDDED/POSITIVE-TILT SHORTWAVE
   TROUGH  -- NOW EVIDENT IN MOISTURE CHANNEL IMAGERY FROM MID-ATLC
   REGION SWWD ACROSS MS...S TX AND NRN MEX -- IS FCST TO ACCELERATE
   NEWD AND WEAKEN THROUGH 00Z...WHILE MOVING OFFSHORE ATLC COAST. 
   MEANWHILE...CYCLONE OVER NWRN ONT WILL PIVOT ACROSS NERN ONT AND SRN
   QUE...REACHING NRN NY AND NEW ENGLAND BY 12Z.  AT THAT
   TIME...SYNOPTIC TROUGH WILL BE LOCATED FROM SERN CANADA SWWD OVER
   APPALACHIANS TO NRN GULF. 

   AT SFC...11Z ANALYSIS SHOWED CYCLONE INVOF SRN NEW ENGLAND
   COAST...WITH COLD FRONT SWWD ACROSS ATLC WATERS TO N-CENTRAL FL. 
   FRONT SHOULD MOVE SEWD ACROSS PENINSULA THROUGH REMAINDER PERIOD. 
   ALTHOUGH VERY BRIEF/ISOLATED THUNDER MAY OCCUR WITH POSTFRONTAL
   PRECIP PLUME OVER SERN CONUS...OR ELEVATED WARM CONVEYOR IN
   MAINE...ONLY GEN TSTM THREAT APPEARS TO BE OVER PARTS OF FL. 

   ...CENTRAL/SRN FL PENINSULA...
   11Z MESOANALYSIS REVEALED PREFRONTAL CONVERGENCE LINE ACCOMPANIED BY
   BKN BAND OF TSTMS JUST S OF DAB-PIE LINE...MOVING SWD BUT MORE
   SLOWLY THAN COLD FRONT.  ANOTHER PREFRONTAL CONFLUENCE LINE...ALSO
   SUPPORTING BKN TSTMS BUT IN CLUSTERS...WAS EVIDENT FROM OFFSHORE
   SANIBEL ISLAND TO ABOUT 140 W EYW TO NEAR NWRN COASTAL WATERS OF
   YUCATAN PENINSULA.  COLD FRONT SHOULD CATCH FIRST PREFRONTAL BAND
   THROUGH LATE MORNING...WHILE ACTIVITY OVER GULF MOVES INTO SWRN FL
   PENINSULA. 

   VEERING OF PREFRONTAL SFC FLOW WITH TIME WILL CONTRIBUTE TO
   WEAKENING OF FRONTAL AND PREFRONTAL CONVERGENCE...AS WELL AS
   DIMINISHING VERTICAL SHEAR.  HOWEVER...LIFT SHOULD REMAIN SUFFICIENT
   IN COMBINATION WITH DIABATIC SFC HEATING AND SFC DEW POINTS NEAR 70
   F TO ERODE ALREADY MEAGER MLCINH AND SUPPORT AT LEAST ISOLATED TO
   WIDELY SCATTERED TSTM POTENTIAL INTO EARLY-MID AFTN. 
   THEREAFTER...CONTINUED WEAKENING OF LIFT SHOULD REDUCE CONVECTIVE
   POTENTIAL IN WHAT IS LEFT OF WARM SECTOR.

   ..EDWARDS/MARSH.. 12/15/2013

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