SPC AC 191238
Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0638 AM CST Fri Nov 19 2021
Valid 191300Z - 201200Z
...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AREAS FORECAST...
...SUMMARY...
The risk for thunderstorms appears negligible across most of the
U.S. today through tonight.
...Synopsis/Discussion...
In mid/upper levels, a nearly zonal large-scale pattern will
predominate over the CONUS thus period, punctuated by two principal
perturbations:
1. A synoptic-scale trough initially extending the length of QC,
then south-southwestward over the central Appalachians. This
feature will move eastward and deamplify slightly, clearing the
Mid-Atlantic around local midday and Maine this evening.
2. A pronounced, positively tilted shortwave trough -- apparent in
moisture-channel imagery across the Olympic Peninsula and
southwestward over the Pacific to about 300 nm west of the coastal
OR/CA line. This feature will move inland to the Canadian Rockies,
eastern OR and northwestern CA by 00Z, then extending over the
Yellowstone to RNO areas by 12Z. Because of lack of greater
low-level moisture/theta-e, inland lightning potential with this
system (if any) will be too isolated, brief and conditional for a
thunder-outlook area.
At the surface, a slow-moving cold front was analyzed at 11Z from
Atlantic waters off the Carolinas, southwestward over central FL, to
the central Gulf. This front should weaken slowly and decelerate
further over central/south-central FL through tonight. To its
south, rich low-level moisture with seasonally large PW (generally
1.75-2 inches in 12Z observed and model forecast soundings) will
offset modest deep-layer lapse rates, in support of around 700-1200
J/kg MLCAPE south of the front, with weak MLCINH. This, along with
the lack of low-level and deep shear, will promote showers and
sporadic thunderstorms in poorly organized, discrete to clustered,
multicellular modes. Though a diurnal peak in convective potential
is expected, at least isolated thunderstorms also may move inland
from the Straits anytime during the period. Heavy rainfall is the
main concern -- see WPC excessive-rain outlooks for more on that
threat.
..Edwards/Jewell.. 11/19/2021
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