SPC AC 280421
Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1021 PM CST Thu Jan 27 2022
Valid 281200Z - 291200Z
...NO THUNDERSTORM AREAS FORECAST...
...SUMMARY...
The risk for thunderstorms appears negligible across the U.S. today
through tonight.
...Discussion...
Models indicate that a fairly prominent mid-level high center will
gradually weaken while shifting southeast of the southern Cascades
and northern Sierra Nevada, through the Great Basin, as an offshore
mid-level low is forced eastward toward the California coast.
Otherwise, it appears that larger-scale mid/upper ridging within the
westerlies will remain relatively amplified across the eastern
mid-latitude Pacific through much of western North America into
early Saturday.
Downstream of this ridging, it still appears that several digging
short wave perturbations will consolidate into amplifying
larger-scale mid/upper troughing. The larger-scale wave is forecast
to take on an increasing neutral tilt late today through tonight,
while progressing east of the Mississippi Valley, toward the
Atlantic Seaboard. This may include the evolution of an embedded
mid-level low across and/or east of the southern Appalachians by 12Z
Saturday, but models continue to generally indicate that much more
prominent surface cyclogenesis will be focused offshore of the Mid
Atlantic coast, near the Gulf Stream. This may commence along a
stalled frontal zone, east/northeast of Florida's Space coast, later
this morning.
In association with these developments, destabilization sufficient
to support increasing thunderstorm development appears probable.
However, this is expected to remain focused well east of southern
and mid Atlantic coastal areas, mainly in association with warm
sector boundary-layer moistening near/east of the Gulf Stream, but
also perhaps later tonight, as strong lower/mid tropospheric cooling
spreads east of the Carolina/Georgia coast.
..Kerr.. 01/28/2022
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