Jan 26, 2021 1730 UTC Day 2 Convective Outlook
Updated: Tue Jan 26 17:16:07 UTC 2021 (20210126 1730Z Day 2 shapefile | 20210126 1730Z Day 2 KML)
Probabilistic to Categorical Outlook Conversion Table
Categorical Graphic
20210126 1730 UTC Day 2 Outlook Graphic
Day 2 Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
MARGINAL 20,558 1,315,796 Albany, GA...Valdosta, GA...Hinesville, GA...Thomasville, GA...Americus, GA...
Probabilistic Tornado Graphic
20210126 1730 UTC Day 2 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 2 Tornado Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
2 % 19,562 1,201,381 Albany, GA...Valdosta, GA...Hinesville, GA...Thomasville, GA...Americus, GA...
Probabilistic Damaging Wind Graphic
20210126 1730 UTC Day 2 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 2 Wind Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
5 % 19,874 1,227,891 Albany, GA...Valdosta, GA...Hinesville, GA...Thomasville, GA...Americus, GA...
Probabilistic Large Hail Graphic
20210126 1730 UTC Day 2 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 2 Hail Risk Area (sq. mi.) Area Pop. Some Larger Population Centers in Risk Area
No Risk Areas Forecast
   SPC AC 261716

   Day 2 Convective Outlook  
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   1116 AM CST Tue Jan 26 2021

   Valid 271200Z - 281200Z

   ...THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY ACROSS
   PARTS OF SOUTHERN GEORGIA...

   ...SUMMARY...
   A couple of strong thunderstorms may impact parts of southern
   Georgia Wednesday, accompanied by at least some risk for severe
   weather.

   ...Synopsis...
   One belt of westerlies emanating from the mid-latitude Pacific
   appears likely to maintain a prominent influence across the U.S.
   through this period.  Across much of the eastern Pacific, models
   indicate that embedded mid/upper ridging will remain amplified, with
   downstream troughing undergoing further amplification/sharpening
   just west of the Pacific coast, while ridging builds across the
   Rockies and Great Plains.  As this occurs, broadly confluent flow
   eastward through the Atlantic Seaboard (between the blocked regime
   across eastern Canada and the prominent subtropical ridge over the
   Caribbean), appears likely to transition from westerly to
   west-northwesterly.  Embedded within this regime, after turning
   eastward across the middle Mississippi Valley during the day
   Wednesday, a significant remnant impulse emerging from the Southwest
   is forecast to dig into southern Mid Atlantic coastal areas by 12Z
   Thursday.

   In lower levels, models indicate that an initially stalled surface
   frontal zone, across the western Atlantic and Southeast into
   northwestern Gulf of Mexico, will provide the focus for significant
   cyclogenesis with the approach of the digging short wave impulse. 
   While it appears that surface wave development may commence across
   the southeastern Alabama/western Florida Panhandle/southwestern
   Georgia vicinity by early Wednesday, guidance suggests that this
   will remain fairly weak until Wednesday evening, generally well east
   of the Carolina coast.  As stronger surface cyclogenesis proceeds, a
   cold front will surge through much of Florida and the eastern Gulf
   of Mexico by late Wednesday night, accompanied by considerable
   lower/mid tropospheric drying.

   ...Southeast...
   Along the northern periphery of the subtropical ridging, lower/mid
   tropospheric lapse rates will be generally weak, at least initially.
    But, conditions along the surface front will still be moist, with a
   narrow plume of higher precipitable water content (emanating from
   southwestern Gulf of Mexico) initially arcing northeastward along
   and north of the frontal zone, before being shunted southward.  

   Within the warm sector of the developing frontal wave, it appears
   that surface dew points in the mid 60s may contribute to weak
   boundary-layer CAPE up to 500 + J/kg, across southern Georgia by
   Wednesday afternoon.  On the southern fringe of the stronger
   mid-level height falls, which may glance areas as far south as the
   Georgia/Florida border vicinity, this may become supportive of
   scattered vigorous thunderstorm development.  Coinciding with
   strengthening of west-southwesterly flow to 40-50 kt around the 850
   mb level, enlarging low-level hodographs could become supportive of
   supercell structures posing a risk for damaging wind gusts and/or an
   isolated tornado or two.

   ..Kerr.. 01/26/2021

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