Sep 26, 2020 0100 UTC Day 1 Convective Outlook
Updated: Sat Sep 26 01:01:25 UTC 2020 (20200926 0100Z Day 1 shapefile | 20200926 0100Z Day 1 KML)
Probabilistic to Categorical Outlook Conversion Table
Categorical Graphic
20200926 0100 UTC Day 1 Outlook Graphic
Day 1 Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
SLIGHT 16,757 194,303 Marquette, MI...
MARGINAL 38,518 2,045,020 Charleston, SC...North Charleston, SC...Mount Pleasant, SC...Sumter, SC...Summerville, SC...
Probabilistic Tornado Graphic
20200926 0100 UTC Day 1 Tornado Probabilities Graphic
Probability of a tornado within 25 miles of a point.
Hatched Area: 10% or greater probability of EF2 - EF5 tornadoes within 25 miles of a point.
Day 1 Tornado Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
5 % 12,003 112,020 No Major Population Center in Risk Area
2 % 23,925 1,792,385 Sumter, SC...Summerville, SC...Goose Creek, SC...Florence, SC...Myrtle Beach, SC...
Probabilistic Damaging Wind Graphic
20200926 0100 UTC Day 1 Damaging Wind Probabilities Graphic
Probability of damaging thunderstorm winds or wind gusts of 50 knots or higher within 25 miles of a point.
Hatched Area: 10% of greater probability of wind gusts 65 knots or greater within 25 miles of a point.
Day 1 Wind Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
15 % 13,920 183,834 Marquette, MI...
5 % 32,559 2,073,851 Charleston, SC...North Charleston, SC...Mount Pleasant, SC...Sumter, SC...Summerville, SC...
Probabilistic Large Hail Graphic
20200926 0100 UTC Day 1 Large Hail Probabilities Graphic
Probability of hail 1" or larger within 25 miles of a point.
Hatched Area: 10% or greater probability of hail 2" or larger within 25 miles of a point.
Day 1 Hail Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
SIG SEVERE 8,869 81,807 No Major Population Center in Risk Area
15 % 16,765 195,803 Marquette, MI...
5 % 21,377 157,351 No Major Population Center in Risk Area
   SPC AC 260101

   Day 1 Convective Outlook  
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   0801 PM CDT Fri Sep 25 2020

   Valid 260100Z - 261200Z

   ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF
   WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND ADJACENT NORTHERN WISCONSIN...

   ...SUMMARY...
   Risk for severe weather will continue during the evening hours
   across far northern Wisconsin and western Upper Michigan.

   ...Western Upper Michigan and adjacent northern Wisconsin...
   A small cluster of stronger thunderstorms has evolved this evening
   over portions of western Lake Superior and into adjacent parts of
   western Upper Michigan and northern Wisconsin.  The convection is
   occurring just ahead of an advancing surface front, where a narrow
   axis of modest (around 1000 J/kg) mixed-layer CAPE is indicated.  

   While instability is limited -- and should gradually diminish both
   with time, and with eastward extent, strong low-level flow
   veering/increasing with eight to southwesterly at mid levels is
   providing favorable shear for organized/supercell storms.  As such,
   a narrow window -- both temporally and spatially -- remains evident
   where potential for large hail and locally damaging winds, along
   with a tornado or two, exists.  This threat should diminish as
   midnight approaches, and storms shift into an increasingly less
   unstable airmass.

   ...Central and eastern South Carolina/southeast North Carolina...
   Moderate/veering flow with height persists across the Atlantic Coast
   states, near and east of a north-south surface trough extending from
   Virginia to Florida.  A moist boundary layer but weak lapse rates
   aloft continues to support around 1000 J/kg mixed-layer CAPE from
   southeastern North Carolina southward, where showers and scattered
   thunderstorms continue.  The overall environment -- kinematically
   and thermodynamically -- remains supportive of an occasional
   stronger storm or two, with locally gusty winds or even a brief
   tornado possible.  While limited overall, this potential may linger
   for a few more hours, as the mid-level trough crossing the central
   Appalachians continues moving steadily eastward toward the Mid
   Atlantic coast.

   ..Goss.. 09/26/2020

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