Jun 5, 2009 0730 UTC Day 3 Severe Thunderstorm Outlook
Updated: Fri Jun 5 07:24:46 UTC 2009
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   SPC AC 050722
   
   DAY 3 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK  
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   0222 AM CDT FRI JUN 05 2009
   
   VALID 071200Z - 081200Z
   
   ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CNTRL
   PLNS...MID-MO VLY AND UPR MS VLY...
   
   ...SYNOPSIS...
   THOUGH TIMING DIFFERENCES EXIST...MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT IN
   TAKING THE GRT BASIN MID-LVL WAVE ENE INTO THE PLNS ON SUNDAY.  THE
   WEAKLY PHASED NRN STREAM WAVE WILL EDGE EWD THROUGH THE NRN HIGH
   PLNS WHILE THE SUB-TROPICAL CUT-OFF WEAKENS OVER FL.
   
   AT THE SFC...A SFC LOW WILL MIGRATE NEWD FROM KS INTO THE MID-MO VLY
   AND CORN BELT ALONG A WRMFNT DURING THE PD.  A TRAILING CDFNT WILL
   SAG SWD INTO THE CNTRL PLNS AS A DRYLINE MIXES INTO SRN PLNS.
   
   ...CNTRL PLNS TO UPR MS VLY...
   LOW CONFIDENCE SVR OTLK EXISTS FOR SUNDAY DUE TO UNCERTAINTY ON
   TIMING OF THE UPR WAVE AND THE ORIENTATION OF THE WARM SECTOR. 
   SUNDAY MORNING TSTM CLUSTERS SHOULD BE IN PROCESS OF WEAKENING OVER
   THE ERN CORN BELT/UPR MS VLY ALONG THE NOSE OF A WSW LLJ. 
   THEREAFTER...MID-LVL HEIGHT RISES AHEAD OF THE EJECTING PRIMARY WAVE
   MAY LIMIT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY UNTIL LATE.  THAT WILL ALLOW AIR MASS
   TO RECOVER ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE MID-MO VLY AND CORN BELT ALONG/S
   OF THE SFC LOW/FRONT.  BY LATE AFTN...THE APCH OF THE SRN BRANCH
   IMPULSE AND INCREASING HEIGHT FALLS DOWNSTREAM OF THE NRN ROCKIES
   SYSTEM WILL CONTRIBUTE TO INCREASING STG-SVR TSTM RISKS ALONG THE
   FRONT/DRYLINE IN ERN PARTS OF KS/NEB.  COMBINATION OF INCREASING
   MID-LVL FLOW WILL BOOST DEEP LAYER SHEAR TO SUPPORT ORGANIZED STORMS
   WITH LARGE HAIL...DMGG WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES.  ACTIVITY MAY
   DEVELOP INTO AN MCS SUNDAY NIGHT AND SPREAD/DEVELOP TOWARD THE UPR
   MS VLY WITH LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS.
   
   ...CNTRL HIGH PLNS...
   MOIST NELY UPSLOPE FLOW AND LARGE SCALE HEIGHT FALLS SPREADING EWD
   FROM THE NRN ROCKIES WILL PROBABLY SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH
   TERRAIN TSTMS IN ERN WY/NERN CO SUNDAY AFTN.  ISOLD SVR STORMS WILL
   BE POSSIBLE AS MIDLVL TEMPERATURES COOL AMIDST 45 KTS OF BULK SHEAR.
    ACTIVITY MAY GROW INTO ONE OR MORE TSTM CLUSTERS AND MOVE INTO
   PARTS OF WRN/NRN NEB AND MOST OF THE DKTS SUNDAY NIGHT.  THIS
   ACTIVITY WILL MOST LIKELY BE ELEVATED WITH ISOLD LARGE HAIL
   POSSIBLE...PRIMARILY ACROSS SRN SD AND PARTS OF NEB.
   
   ...SRN PLNS...
   SRN FRINGE OF THE EJECTING SRN BRANCH IMPULSE WILL GRAZE THE SRN
   KS...OK AND W TX PORTION OF THE DRYLINE SUNDAY EVENING WITH ISOLD
   TSTMS POSSIBLE.  MAGNITUDE OF MID-LVL LAPSE RATES AND MARGINAL DEEP
   LAYER SHEAR WILL SUPPORT SUPERCELLS WITH PRIMARILY LARGE
   HAIL...SHOULD STORMS DEVELOP.
   
   ..RACY.. 06/05/2009
   
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