SPC AC 100729
DAY 3 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0229 AM CDT SAT AUG 10 2013
VALID 121200Z - 131200Z
...NO SVR TSTM AREAS FORECAST...
...SYNOPSIS...
GRADUAL TROUGH AMPLIFICATION IS EXPECTED OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION
AND ADJACENT OH VALLEY/NORTHEAST STATES ON MONDAY...WHILE AN UPPER
RIDGE PERSISTS ACROSS THE ROCKIES WITH RISING HEIGHTS OVER THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST IN THE WAKE OF A NORTHWARD-MIGRATING UPPER LOW.
...MIDWEST/LOWER GREAT LAKES...
AS HEIGHT FALLS OCCUR TIED TO THE AMPLIFYING/SOUTHEASTWARD-SHIFTING
UPPER TROUGH OVER NORTHERN ONTARIO/NORTHWEST QUEBEC...INCREASINGLY
STRONG CYCLONIC UPPER FLOW IS EXPECTED OVER THE MIDWEST/GREAT LAKES.
MOIST ADVECTION FROM THE WEST-SOUTHWEST WILL OCCUR IMMEDIATELY AHEAD
OF A SLOW SOUTHEASTWARD-MOVING COLD FRONT...WITH A CORRIDOR OF AT
LEAST WEAK INSTABILITY AHEAD OF THE FRONT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS
PORTIONS OF IL/INDIANA INTO OH/SOUTHERN LOWER MI. AIDED BY THE
RIGHT-ENTRANCE REGION OF AN INCREASINGLY STRONG UPPER JET...TSTMS
SHOULD INCREASE/INTENSIFY MONDAY AFTERNOON. MODESTLY
STRONG/NEAR-UNIDIRECTIONAL WESTERLY FLOW WILL ALLOW FOR
MULTICELLS/LINE SEGMENTS CAPABLE OF WIND DAMAGE ASIDE FROM SOME
MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL. STORMS SHOULD SPREAD EAST-SOUTHEASTWARD
ACROSS MUCH OF THE OH VALLEY AND PERHAPS INTO OTHER PARTS OF THE
NORTHEAST STATES MONDAY NIGHT...ALTHOUGH WITH A DIMINISHED INTENSITY
BY MID-EVENING.
...SOUTH-CENTRAL PLAINS TO OZARKS/MID-SOUTH...
CURRENT THINKING IS THAT CLUSTERS OF TSTMS/PERHAPS A WEAKENING MCS
MAY BE ONGOING MONDAY MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH-CENTRAL
PLAINS TO LOWER MO VALLEY/OZARKS. ON THE FRINGES OF THIS EARLY DAY
ACTIVITY...MESOSCALE INFLUENCES MAY HELP FOCUS
DEVELOPMENT/REINTENSIFICATION OF STORMS INTO A VERY
MOIST/POTENTIALLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS MONDAY AFTERNOON...POTENTIALLY
INCLUDING A CORRIDOR FROM EASTERN OK/OZARKS TO THE MID-SOUTH/MS
VALLEY. SPORADIC WIND DAMAGE WOULD BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD WITHIN THIS
SCENARIO.
...NORTH-CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS...
ALTHOUGH OVERALL FORCING/VERTICAL SHEAR WILL BE MODEST UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF THE NEARBY ROCKIES UPPER RIDGE...ISOLATED/WIDELY
SCATTERED TSTMS SHOULD DEVELOP IN VICINITY OF A HIGH PLAINS LEE
TROUGH/UPSLOPE TRAJECTORIES. WEAK SHEAR/MODERATE INSTABILITY MAY
ALLOW FOR SOME STRONGER TSTMS CAPABLE OF SEVERE HAIL AND POSSIBLY
SOME SEVERE WIND MONDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING.
...NORTHERN INTERMOUNTAIN REGION...
AS COMPARED TO PRIOR DAYS...WEAKER OVERALL FORCING IS EXPECTED
ACROSS THE REGION INTO MONDAY...ALTHOUGH OROGRAPHIC LIFT/RESIDUALLY
MOIST AIRMASS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO AT LEAST ISOLATED TSTM DEVELOPMENT
ACROSS THE REGION MONDAY AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. A FEW OF THESE
STORMS COULD PRODUCE MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL OR WIND.
..GUYER.. 08/10/2013
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