SPC AC 030651
DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1251 AM CST TUE NOV 03 2015
VALID 041200Z - 051200Z
...THERE IS A MRGL RISK OF SVR TSTMS SRN HIGH PLAINS...
...SUMMARY...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY...ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE
POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS...WHILE A FEW STORMS WITH
SUB-SEVERE HAIL MAY OCCUR OVER WEST-CENTRAL NEBRASKA.
...SYNOPSIS...
AN AMPLIFIED UPPER PATTERN WILL PERSIST WITH A TROUGH WEST AND RIDGE
EAST. A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE IMPULSES EVOLVING ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST
TO NRN GREAT PLAINS WILL YIELD A NET EWD DISPLACEMENT OF THE TROUGH
FROM THE NRN HIGH PLAINS TO FOUR CORNERS AREA BY 12Z/THU. AT THE
SURFACE...A LEAD CYCLONE SHOULD TRACK FROM SD TO NW ONTARIO. A COLD
FRONT WILL EXTEND SW OF THIS LOW TO A LEE CYCLONE OVER NERN CO. THIS
LOW SHOULD REACH S-CNTRL NEB...WITH A PACIFIC COLD FRONT OVERTAKING
THE SRN HIGH PLAINS DRYLINE EARLY THU.
...SRN HIGH PLAINS...
MODIFICATION OF A CONTINENTAL POLAR AIR MASS OVER THE NW GULF INTO
TAMAULIPAS HAS COMMENCED PER GOES PW IMAGERY. POLEWARD MOISTURE
TRANSPORT WILL STRENGTHEN LATE D1 INTO D2...LIKELY YIELDING LOWER
60S SURFACE DEW POINTS INTO NW TX AS A MARITIME TROPICAL AIR MASS
OVERSPREADS MUCH OF S/E TX BY 12Z/THU. INCREASING MID-LEVEL HEIGHT
FALLS IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONVERGENCE ALONG THE COMPOSITE COLD
FRONT/DRYLINE SHOULD RESULT IN ISOLATED TO SCATTERED TSTMS FORMING
WED NIGHT/EARLY THU. MID/UPPER-LEVEL SWLYS WILL BE STRENGTHENING AND
FOSTER A PRIMARY RISK OF MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL/WIND...IN SPITE OF
MODEST MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND TIME OF DAY. INCREASINGLY VEERED
LOW-LEVEL FLOW MAY LIMIT THE MAGNITUDE OF LOW-LEVEL HODOGRAPHS AND
ATTENDANT TORNADO POTENTIAL.
...W-CNTRL NEB...
STRENGTHENING FORCING FOR ASCENT IS EXPECTED WED NIGHT ON THE NOSE
OF THE GREAT PLAINS LLJ IN COMBINATION WITH MID-LEVEL HEIGHT
FALLS/DCVA AHEAD OF A SHORTWAVE IMPULSE SHIFTING INTO THE CNTRL HIGH
PLAINS. WHILE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE INCREASING...SURFACE DEW
POINTS SHOULD ONLY REACH THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 50S. MID-LEVEL LAPSE
RATES WILL BE STEEP WITHIN AN EML PLUME THAT WILL PROBABLY INHIBIT
SURFACE-BASED TSTM DEVELOPMENT. A CLUSTER OF ELEVATED CONVECTION
SHOULD DEVELOP ON THE COOL SIDE OF THE SURFACE FRONT. EVEN WITH
MEAGER BUOYANCY...ROBUST EFFECTIVE SHEAR SHOULD SUPPORT SMALL HAIL.
..GRAMS.. 11/03/2015
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