Jan-31-2005 0600 UTC Day 1 Convective Outlook
Updated: Mon Jan 31 05:37:51 UTC 2005
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   SPC AC 310532
   
   DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK  
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   1132 PM CST SUN JAN 30 2005
   
   VALID 311200Z - 011200Z.
   
   GEN TSTMS ARE FCST TO THE RIGHT OF A LINE FROM 15 SE DRT 50 WNW AUS
   35 NNE CLL 35 WSW POE 45 WNW LFT 30 WSW BVE.
   
   ...NO SVR TSTM AREAS FORECAST...
   
   ...SOUTH TX/SRN LA...
   SHORT WAVE TROUGH OVER OK AT 12Z MONDAY WILL TRANSLATE EWD ACROSS
   THE OH/TN VALLEYS ATOP A FLAT RIDGE EXTENDING FROM TX TO OFF THE
   SERN STATES.  UPSTREAM HEIGHT RISES FROM THE GREAT BASIN TO THE
   UPPER MS VALLEY WILL MAINTAIN CONFLUENT FLOW OVER THE CENTRAL
   PLAINS/LOWER MO VALLEY FOR SURFACE PRESSURE RISES TO DEVELOP SWD
   TOWARD TX.  ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ONGOING AT THE
   START OF THE PERIOD ACROSS SRN/SERN TX WITHIN WEAK WAA REGIME. COLD
   FRONT WILL MOVE SEWD INTO THE NWRN GULF OF MEXICO TODAY...WITH THIS
   BOUNDARY NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE ESE OF BRO UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON. 
   THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF THE PERIOD
   ALONG AND NORTH OF THE COLD FRONT FROM S TX TO SRN LA...WITHIN
   CONTINUED ZONE OF WAA.
   
   50 KT OF SWLY MID LEVEL FLOW OVER THE TX COASTAL PLAIN TO LOWER MS
   VALLEY WOULD SUPPORT SUFFICIENT DEEP LAYER SHEAR FOR ORGANIZED
   STORMS IN THE WARM SECTOR.  HOWEVER...MODEST LAPSE RATES WILL TEND
   TO MINIMIZE AVAILABLE CAPE DESPITE SURFACE DEWPOINTS IN THE
   MID-UPPER 60S IN THE WARM SECTOR.  THUS...OVERALL POTENTIAL STORM
   INTENSITY/SEVERE THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE LIMITED AS THE COLD FRONT
   MOVES SEWD ACROSS DEEP S TX BY LATE AFTERNOON.
   
   ..PETERS.. 01/31/2005
   
   ...NOTICE...
   FOR USERS DECODING THE POINTS PARAGRAPH HEREIN...LATITUDE AND
   LONGITUDE POINTS FOR THE CATEGORICAL AND PROBABILISTIC OUTLOOK
   GRAPHICS ALSO ARE LOCATED IN A SEPARATE PRODUCT UNDER THE WMO
   HEADINGS WUUS01 PTSDY1...WUUS02 PTSDY2...AND WUUS03 PTSDY3.  THE
   INCLUSION OF POINTS IN THIS PRODUCT WILL EVENTUALLY BE DISCONTINUED.
   
   NOTE: THE NEXT DAY 1 OUTLOOK IS SCHEDULED BY 1300Z