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Plains May 27-30 severe weather threat?


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I like what BT said from DTX....totally agree WITH HIM....:)

A LOT OF WHAT HAPPENS LATER SUNDAY WILL DEPEND ON THE DETAILS OF TONIGHT`S ACTIVITY IN TERMS OF LINGERING SHOWERS, CLOUD COVER, AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. CONCERNS FOR SEVERE WEATHER REMAIN VALID SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THE LATEST MODEL SOLUTIONS CONTINUE TO SUGGEST A SURFACE WAVE AHEAD OF THE MAIN LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING THE WARM FRONT INTO SE MICHIGAN, AT LEAST UP TO THE INTERSTATE 69 CORRIDOR. MODEL TEMPERATURE FIELDS AND FORECAST SOUNDINGS ALSO INDICATE RELATIVELY SLOW ARRIVAL OF CAPPING TEMPERATURES IN THE 850 TO 700 MB LAYER WHICH WILL PROVIDE A SHOT AT SURFACE-BASED CONVECTION DURING PEAK HEATING. THE PRESENCE OF THE WARM FRONT WILL PROVIDE A FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE FOR ORGANIZED CONVECTION AS INSTABILITY BUILDS DURING THE DAY. SHEAR IN THE 0-6 KM LAYER PUSHING 40 KNOTS LOOKS BOTTOM HEAVY ENOUGH FOR BOTH SUPERCELL AND LINEAR MODES OF CONVECTION AS CLUSTERS MATURE WITH TIME. DEVELOPMENT LOCKED ON THE WARM FRONT WOULD ALSO ENJOY 0-3 KM HELICITY AROUND 200 M2/S2 WITH ML CAPE NEAR 2000 J/KG. THE MAIN QUESTIONS AGAIN ARE CENTERED AROUND SURFACE HEATING POTENTIAL AND ANY ADDITIONAL TIMING ADJUSTMENTS TO ARRIVAL OF CAPPING MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES. THE SPC DAY 2 SLIGHT RISK CERTAINLY SEEMS REASONABLE IN A CONDITIONAL SENSE.

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STL area looking more and more intersting

SSE surface winds, 35 KT LLJ, 50KT at 700mb, and 55kt at 500 out of the west

sun should be fully out by 1pm

all models break the CAP now

Sun breaking through in central Missouri already. The northern Indiana wrf is similar to the LSX with precip breaking out west of STL, but it doesn't have the development closer to downtown and east of river.

*Sun now starting to peak through here just east of STL.

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STL area looking more and more intersting

SSE surface winds, 35 KT LLJ, 50KT at 700mb, and 55kt at 500 out of the west

sun should be fully out by 1pm

all models break the CAP now

I tell ya it's my Birthday weekend, something's gonna happen :P

it may be a hailstorm but almost always you see a storm this weekend... I don't know if it's just luck or what but storms seem to love the weekend just around my birthday

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DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

1129 AM CDT SAT MAY 28 2011

VALID 281630Z - 291200Z

..THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS OVER PORTIONS OF MN/WI

..THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS FROM KS INTO IL/IND

..MN/WI

A WEAKENING UPPER LOW IS CURRENTLY OVER ND/SRN MANITOBA. A SERIES

OF SHORTWAVE TROUGHS ARE ROTATING AROUND THE LOW...INCLUDING ONE

OVER WESTERN ND/SD. THIS FEATURE IS FORECAST TO MOVE EASTWARD AND

AFFECT MN/WI LATER TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM IN

WESTERN MN BY MID AFTERNOON AND SPREAD EASTWARD TOWARD WESTERN LAKE

SUPERIOR...NORTHERN WI...AND THE ARROWHEAD REGION THIS EVENING.

INSTABILITY IS ONLY MARGINAL FOR AN ORGANIZED SEVERE EVENT.

HOWEVER...STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES...COLD TEMPERATURES AND FAST

FLOW ALOFT WILL SUPPORT A RISK OF A FEW FAST-MOVING CLUSTERS OF

THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF HAIL AND LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS. STORMS

SHOULD DIMINISH A FEW HOURS AFTER SUNSET.

..CENTRAL PLAINS INTO MID MS VALLEY

CONVECTIVE EVOLUTION IS UNCERTAIN ACROSS THIS AREA TODAY. WEAK MID

LEVEL HEIGHT RISES AND WEAK FORCING MECHANISMS SUGGEST CONVECTIVE

COVERAGE WILL BE QUITE LIMITED THROUGH MOST OF THE FORECAST PERIOD.

THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...MOST LIKELY AREA FOR

ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WOULD BE FROM EASTERN KS INTO PORTIONS OF

MO/IL WHERE STRONG HEATING AND RESIDUAL BOUNDARIES FROM MORNING

CONVECTION MIGHT AID DEVELOPMENT. IF STORMS CAN FORM...STRONG

INSTABILITY AND SUFFICIENT EFFECTIVE SHEAR WOULD SUPPORT A RISK OR

ORGANIZED OR EVEN SUPERCELL STORMS CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL AND

DAMAGING WINDS.

OVERNIGHT...STRENGTHENING SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL ENHANCE

WARM ADVECTION AND POSSIBLY LEAD TO MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS

ALONG THE SLIGHT RISK AXIS. LARGE HAIL WOULD BE THE MAIN THREAT

WITH THESE STORMS FROM KS INTO IND.

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Forbes seems less then impressed...

Dr. Greg Forbes SUNDAY

It's a hard forecast, as upper-air forcing looks minimal. Isolated severe thunderstorms, mainly with hail, along the front in south MI. There could be very isolated severe thunderstorms elsewhere along the front in northern New England, upstate NY, south WI, north IL, IA, north NE. Seems like it may be a little dry for isolated severe in southeast WY.

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make that 80dbz up to 20kft...geez

That's probably not at 20kft...with the inversion in place, you're going to get more beam bending than normal, meaning that the radar will be sampling lower than the program indicates. The 80dBz return is still very impressive, but it's not at 20kft.

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Even as impressive as the storm looks, lapse rates are fairly weak and that supports the storm reports we are getting of generally 1.5" hail or less.

all storm reports have NOT been from the heart of the hail core either.... all been from fringe areas around the core looking at GRAE, we should get a core reading soon as the core is heading for Vandalia and Bowling Green, MO

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Yeah there's no doubt this thing is dropping at least baseballs, if not larger somewhere.

Actually I kinda doubt it. Given the environmental conditions, the superrefraction of the radar beam, and the lack of a TBSS on this cell, I mean I can see maybe 2" hail, but I kinda doubt baseballs.

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Actually I kinda doubt it. Given the environmental conditions, the superrefraction of the radar beam, and the lack of a TBSS on this cell, I mean I can see maybe 2" hail, but I kinda doubt baseballs.

I figured we would have heard reports of it by now, although its had a TBSS on it at the 1.5 tilt for quite awhile.

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Northern Ontario

==DISCUSSION==
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN
ASSOCIATION WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE.  THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL.  BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO
70 KM/H AND FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE GENERATED BY WEAK ROTATION UNDER RAPIDLY
GROWING CLOUDS OR WEAK THUNDERSTORMS.  THIS WEAK ROTATION IS NORMALLY
NOT A DANGER NEAR THE GROUND.  HOWEVER THERE IS A VERY SLIGHT CHANCE
THAT THIS ROTATION COULD INTENSIFY TO BECOME A WEAK LANDSPOUT
TORNADO.  A LANDSPOUT IS SIMILAR TO A WATERSPOUT IN BOTH APPEARANCE
AND IMPACT, BUT OCCURS OVER LAND AND NOT WATER, HENCE THE NAME.

ENVIRONMENT CANADA WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND
IF CONDITIONS BECOME MORE FAVOURABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE
HAIL OR LANDSPOUT TORNADOES, WATCHES AND WARNINGS WILL BE PROMPTLY
ISSUED.

LANDSPOUT TORNADOES DO NOT USUALLY CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE BUT CAN
STILL BE DANGEROUS.  THEY CAN BE STRONG ENOUGH TO TOPPLE TREES,
DAMAGE ROOFS OR TOSS DEBRIS SHORT DISTANCES.

TREAT ANY FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTING SERIOUSLY.  SHOULD A FUNNEL CLOUD
DEVELOP NEARBY TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.  REMEMBER, THESE FUNNEL
CLOUDS USUALLY APPEAR WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

REFER TO YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC FORECAST FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

END/OSPC

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