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Severe Threat Monday 11/29-Tuesday 11/30


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Time to get some discussion going on this system. The NAM has been persistent in painting a rather interesting scenario with the system on Monday and Tuesday. It brings a good tongue of 65F Tds up into LA and into central MS. It develops about 750-1000J/kg of CAPE in an extremely sheared environment. Strong environmental shear would promote supercells and tornadoes in the warm sector, with a line along the front. GFS has a similar setup but with less instability, which is likely from poor handling of the lower levels. SREF is really keying in on a threat, with the sig tor ingredients product tripping 30% on the 21z run and the mean sig tor reaching 3. JAN and LCH both mention tornadoes in their AFDs, with JAN even talking up a potential outbreak scenario. I wouldn't say an outbreak is likely yet, but unlike the threat around Thanksgiving, this event has strong SREF support, so my interested is definitely piqued.

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This part really catches my eye:

WHILE THERE MAY BE A DECREASE IN TSTM COVERAGE/INTENSITY DURING THE

EARLY PART OF MONDAY EVENING...THE ARRIVAL OF STRONGER FORCING FOR

ASCENT/HEIGHT FALLS AHEAD OF THE DIGGING SHORTWAVE TROUGH TOWARD

CENTRAL TX SUGGESTS STORMS SHOULD RAMP UP AGAIN LATE IN THE

EVENING/OVERNIGHT OVER THE LOWER MS VALLEY. THE INLAND INTRUSION OF

THE MOIST WARM SECTOR WILL AID IN SUFFICIENT DESTABILIZATION FOR

SURFACE BASED STORMS INTO THE SRN HALF OF MS AND SWRN AL OVERNIGHT.

FURTHER INCREASE IN MIDLEVEL WINDS ATOP THE LLJ WILL SUPPORT STRONG

DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND INCREASING LOW LEVEL HODOGRAPH CURVATURE FOR A

LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT TORNADO THREAT...SOME OF WHICH MAY BE

SIGNIFICANT. A THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

Sounds like a classic Dixie Alley overnight tornado outbreak...this could be very dangerous...

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Tomorrow into Tuesday looks like a serious severe weather outbreak with severe weather from the gulf to canada possible, just to mention up in the Upper OV Valley, forecasts have shown extreme helicity in the Mid Atlantic and Upper Ohio Valley on Tuesday

Haven't looked at this much but from what I've seen, I don't see a threat up to Canada. Am I missing something?

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New Orleans office seems to be taking a somewhat conservative approach at present, especially with respect to lapse rates. I'm not so sure.

.SHORT TERM...

DEEP LAYER MOISTURE IS CURRENTLY STREAMING NORTH FROM THE BAY OF

CAMPECHE AND WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO INTO THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN

GULF COAST. THIS STRONG MOISTURE ADVECTION WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT

AND TOMORROW...AS A DEEP LAYER SOUTHERLY FLOW INTENSIFIES. A

STRONG LOW LEVEL JET SHOULD DEVELOP OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI

VALLEY MONDAY AFTERNOON AND REMAIN OVER THE AREA THROUGH MONDAY.

THIS 40+ KNOT LLJ WILL ALLOW FOR INCREASED LOW LEVEL SHEAR. THE

SHEAR SHOULD BE FAIRLY UNIDIRECTIONAL...BUT WITH 50+ KNOTS OF

SPEED SHEAR IN THE 0-6KM RANGE...THERE WILL BE A HIGH POTENTIAL

FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER. THE MAIN LIMITING FACTOR

WILL A LACK OF OVERALL INSTABILITY. EVEN THOUGH THE LOW LEVELS

WILL BE WARM AND MOIST...A LACK OF GOOD LAPSE RATES ALOFT WILL

LIMIT THE DEPTH AND STRENGTH OF CONVECTIVE UPDRAFTS. WITH THIS IN

MIND...EXPECT A MORE CLASSIC LOW CAPE/HIGH SHEAR SEVERE WEATHER

EVENT. WITH UNIDIRECTIONAL SHEAR IN PLACE...EXPECT A FAIRLY LINEAR

EVENT...MOST LIKELY IN THE FORM OF A BROKEN SQUALL LINE WITH

EMBEDDED BOWING SEGMENTS.

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