Jun 7, 2014 0600 UTC Day 2 Convective Outlook
Updated: Sat Jun 7 06:00:42 UTC 2014 (20140607 0600Z Day 2 shapefile | 20140607 0600Z Day 2 KML)
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Probability of severe weather within 25 miles of a point.
Hatched Area: 10% or greater probability of significant severe within 25 miles of a point.
Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
SLIGHT 263,414 16,390,707 Dallas, TX...Ft. Worth, TX...Oklahoma City, OK...Arlington, TX...Plano, TX...
   SPC AC 070531

   DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK  
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   1231 AM CDT SAT JUN 07 2014

   VALID 081200Z - 091200Z

   ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN
   PLAINS INTO NORTHERN MS/AL...

   ...SUMMARY...
   THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS INTO
   THE PARTS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI
   AND ALABAMA SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. STRONG WINDS
   AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.

   ...SYNOPSIS...
   QUASI-ZONAL/LOW AMPLITUDE W/NW FLOW OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE
   COUNTRY WILL AMPLIFY ON SUNDAY. A SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO
   DEEPEN AS IT MOVES OUT OF THE ROCKIES DURING THE AFTERNOON AND
   ACROSS THE PLAINS OVERNIGHT. A NEARLY STATIONARY W-E ORIENTED SFC
   BOUNDARY WILL LIE ACROSS PARTS OF THE SRN PLAINS INTO CNTRL AR AND
   NRN MS/AL...SERVING AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING
   THE AFTERNOON...BEFORE UPSCALE GROWTH RESULTS IN ONE OR MORE
   OVERNIGHT MCS/S ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. 

   ...SOUTHERN PLAINS TO NRN MS/AL...

   UNCERTAINTY REMAINS REGARDING THE EXACT EVOLUTION OF SEVERE THREAT
   SUNDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING AS...SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS TWO OR THREE
   DAYS...OVERNIGHT CONVECTION ON SATURDAY/DAY 1 WILL INFLUENCE WHERE
   EXACTLY SFC BOUNDARIES SETTLE TO FOCUS DEVELOPMENT ON DAY 2/SUNDAY. 

   AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD...A W-E ORIENTED STATIONARY BOUNDARY
   IS EXPECTED TO BE LOCATED SOUTH OF ONGOING CONVECTION ACROSS PARTS
   OF TX/OK IN THE VICINITY OF E-CENTRAL NM TO ALONG THE RED RIVER INTO
   CENTRAL AR AND NRN MS/AL. AS THE UPPER TROUGH AMPLIFIES AND BEGINS
   TO EJECT OUT OF THE ROCKIES...SFC LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP ALONG/TO
   THE NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY IN THE VICINITY OF THE SRN HIGH PLAINS AND
   ALSO NEAR THE LOWER OH VALLEY. THIS WILL RESULT IN THE BOUNDARY
   SAGGING SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA AS AN EFFECTIVE COLD
   FRONT. A VERY MOIST AIRMASS /DEWPOINTS MID 60S TO LOW 70S F/ IS
   FORECAST NEAR AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT. AS SFC HEATING
   OCCURS...MODERATE TO STRONG INSTABILITY WILL ALLOW FOR SCATTERED
   THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. STEEP MIDLEVEL LAPSE RATES AND ADEQUATE
   0-6KM SHEAR SHOULD RESULT IN SOME DISCRETE SUPERCELLS...INITIALLY IN
   MOIST UPSLOPE E/SELY FLOW ACROSS THE SRN HIGH PLAINS INTO W TX. IN
   THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT ACROSS NRN MS/AL WHERE A LEAD SHORTWAVE
   IMPULSE WILL OVERSPREAD THAT REGION DURING THE AFTERNOON...SCATTERED
   STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT WITH
   STORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. 

   AS THE LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES DURING THE EVENING...STORMS SHOULD
   ONCE AGAIN GROW UPSCALE INTO ONE OR MCS/S TRACKING EWD ACROSS THE
   SLIGHT RISK AREA. 

   ...CENTRAL PLAINS...

   THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE HIGH PLAINS OF ERN CO/WRN NEB ARE
   EXPECTED TO EVOLVE INTO AN MCS OVERNIGHT AND TRACK EWD ACROSS PARTS
   OF NEB/KS AS THE MAIN UPPER LOW EJECTS EWD AND A SFC COLD FRONT
   DROPS S/SEWD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. INSTABILITY WILL BE
   LIMITED...BUT ADEQUATE...AND COUPLED WITH STEEP LAPSE RATES...SOME
   STRONGER CELLS CAPABLE OF MARGINAL HAIL/WIND ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE
   EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.

   ..LEITMAN.. 06/07/2014

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