Jun 5, 2007 1100 UTC Day 3 Severe Thunderstorm Outlook
Updated: Tue Jun 5 07:33:39 UTC 2007
Probabilistic to Categorical Outlook Conversion Table (Effective Feb 14, 2006).
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20070605 1100 UTC Day 3 Outlook Graphic
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20070605 1100 UTC Day Probabilitic Graphic
   SPC AC 050731
   
   DAY 3 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK  
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   0231 AM CDT TUE JUN 05 2007
   
   VALID 071200Z - 081200Z
   
   ...THERE IS A MDT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS PARTS OF ERN
   MN...WI...UPPER MI...CENTRAL AND ERN IA...NWRN IL...AND NRN MO...
   
   ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM THE UPPER MS VALLEY/UPPER
   GREAT LAKES REGION SSWWD INTO OK...
   
   ...SYNOPSIS...
   STRONG UPPER TROUGH -- ACCOMPANIED BY INTENSE DEEP-LAYER WIND FIELD
   -- WILL CONTINUE PROGRESSING EWD ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NRN PLAINS
   AND INTO THE UPPER MS VALLEY/UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION THROUGH THE
   PERIOD.  AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES EWD...UNSEASONABLY DEEP SURFACE
   CYCLONE SHOULD MOVE NEWD ACROSS MN INTO ONTARIO THROUGH THE PERIOD. 
   SHARP/TRAILING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE RAPIDLY EWD ACROSS THE NRN
   PLAINS/UPPER MS VALLEY INTO THE CENTRAL UPPER GREAT LAKES
   REGION...WHILE MOVING MORE SLOWLY SEWD ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS
   INTO SERN MO/NRN AR/SERN OK/N TX BY THE END OF THE PERIOD.
   
   ...UPPER GREAT LAKES/UPPER MS VALLEY SSWWD INTO OK/N CENTRAL TX...
   ANOTHER DAY OF WIDESPREAD/SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER IS
   FORECAST...AS UNSEASONABLY-INTENSE DEEP-LAYER WIND FIELD BECOMES
   JUXTAPOSED WITH A VERY MOIST/UNSTABLE WARM SECTOR.  
   
   STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ONGOING AT THE START OF THE PERIOD -- MAINLY
   FROM THE NRN PLAINS INTO THE WRN UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION.  SEVERE
   THREAT SHOULD BE ONGOING WITH THESE STORMS...THOUGH MUCH OF THE
   PRE-FRONTAL CONVECTION SHOULD WEAKEN/LIFT NEWD ACROSS THE UPPER
   GREAT LAKES THROUGH THE MORNING.
   
   WITH UPPER 60S DEWPOINTS FORECAST AHEAD OF FRONT...DAYTIME HEATING
   WILL CONTRIBUTE TO WIDESPREAD 1500 TO 2500 J/KG MEAN-LAYER CAPE
   ACROSS THE WARM SECTOR.  BY MID AFTERNOON...HEATING COMBINED WITH
   LOW-LEVEL UVV INVOF FRONT SHOULD ALLOW CAP TO WEAKEN SUFFICIENTLY
   FOR NEW STORM DEVELOPMENT -- FROM THE UPPER MS VALLEY SWWD INTO NWRN
   MO/NERN KS.  MORE ISOLATED STORMS SHOULD DEVELOP THROUGH LATE
   AFTERNOON/EVENING ACROSS ERN KS AND INTO CENTRAL AND ERN OK AND
   PERHAPS N TX.
   
   THOUGH INSTABILITY MAY NOT BE QUITE AS HIGH AS THE PREVIOUS
   DAY...THE DEEP-LAYER SHEAR IS FORECAST TO BE STRONGER...AS 100 KT
   SWLY H5 JET STREAK REMAINS JUST TO THE COOL SIDE OF THE SURFACE
   FRONT AND 60 TO 80 KT FLOW SPREADS EWD INTO THE WARM SECTOR.  AS A
   RESULT...STORMS WILL RAPIDLY BECOME SUPERCELLS...THOUGH STORM MODE
   MAY TREND TOWARD SUPERCELLS EMBEDDED WITHIN COMPLEX/BOWING LINES
   WITH TIME -- PARTICULARLY FROM NRN MO/IA NWD INTO THE GREAT LAKES
   REGION THROUGH THE EVENING.  ALONG WITH POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED
   STRONG TORNADOES...VERY LARGE HAIL AND WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS ARE
   FORECAST.  STORMS/SEVERE THREAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE
   PERIOD...SPREADING ACROSS THE UPPER GREAT LAKES AND INTO THE MIDWEST
   THROUGH 08/12Z.
   
   ..GOSS.. 06/05/2007
   
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