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Outflow outpacing most of the line in Iowa now. Still looks better up in Jackson county north of Maquoketa, as the outflow isn't nearly as detached there.

One hell of a cold pool behind that line. At the very least there is going to be some major heavy rain potential, especially along I-80 where those cells will likely train.

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For the last few runs the 24 hour RUC has had a line of thunderstorms developing just west of MKE, and moving WNW toward the ongoing line of strong t'storms that will likely head through Minnesota tomorrow afternoon. Is that even plausible? Almost seems like a lake breeze development.

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One hell of a cold pool behind that line. At the very least there is going to be some major heavy rain potential, especially along I-80 where those cells will likely train.

Some regeneration of the WAA wing now over far northern Illinois. The northern two tiers of counties could see an enhanced severe threat over the next few hours as the complex moves east. Rockford, Sycamore, and Dekalb could get very strong winds from this in the next hour or two.

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This just goes to show how the upper levels and the dynamics associated with a shortwave trump high cape and little surface convergence. We are sitting at 63/56 and we have a pretty nasty MCS about to knock on the door. This system isn't exactly zipping along I wonder how the recovery in the warm sector tomorrow goes, along with boundary placement. This mcs could keep the surface warm front a bit too far south to benefit from the height falls and deep layer shear associated with the SW riding along to the north. We'll see though i'm gonna wake up early tomorrow and see how the sat. and clearing look, surface obs, and how the hrrr places the boundaries and see if its going to be out of my range (plus MN always worries me with the lakes and the road network). BTW if anyone has been following the HRRR was superb this afternoon and evening it certainly does well when the forcing is more apparent.

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One hell of a light show yet again tonightthumbsupsmileyanim.gif

Anxious to see what the bow brings in in a bit..

Yeah I was real impressed by the light show I was seeing on the way to work, then when I stopped and looked on my phone, it was a complex South of Toledo I was seeing, Talk about some long distance lightning, 50-70 miles South of the airport.

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Yeah I was real impressed by the light show I was seeing on the way to work, then when I stopped and looked on my phone, it was a complex South of Toledo I was seeing, Talk about some long distance lightning, 50-70 miles South of the airport.

Yeah even last night I was pretty far away from the main storms and still got a good show..

Here are some Lighting stats from Skilling-

"4,100 cloud to ground strokes within 225 mi radius of Chi pst 10 mins! "

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decrease the surface T and increase that slight cap a bit is my only concern, I wanna see what the debris does this morning.

Sorry.... other than that incredible, i'm back and forth on heading down tomorrow great numbers and awesome hodo's but i've seen this crap way to many time the forcing from the night before backbuild and throw a cirrus deck up across the warm sector, or persist and build south and push the boundary to far away from the upper level forcing.. Subsidence behind this beast may be an issue if it goes all night.

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DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

1257 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2011

VALID 231200Z - 241200Z

...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS TODAY ACROSS THE UPPER

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY/UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION...EAST SOUTHEASTWARD

THROUGH THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY AND NORTHERN MID ATLANTIC COAST

STATES...

...SYNOPSIS...

SUBTROPICAL RIDGING WILL REMAIN PROMINENT ACROSS MUCH OF THE NATION

THROUGH THIS FORECAST PERIOD. BUT IT DOES APPEAR THAT A SIGNIFICANT

SHORT WAVE TROUGH DIGGING TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE HUDSON/JAMES

BAY REGION WILL CONTRIBUTE TO MID-LEVEL HEIGHT FALLS ACROSS MUCH OF

THE NORTHEAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AS THIS

OCCURS...MODELS SUGGEST THAT AN UPSTREAM SHORT WAVE TROUGH WILL

CONTINUE LIFTING NORTH OF THE CENTRAL CANADIAN/U.S. BORDER...WHILE

RIDGING BUILDS ACROSS THE NORTHERN INTERMOUNTAIN REGION AND

ROCKIES...AHEAD OF ANOTHER SHORT WAVE TROUGH DIGGING TO THE WEST OF

THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR AGAIN TODAY WITHIN A

MOIST ENVIRONMENT BENEATH THE UPPER RIDGE ACROSS PARTS OF THE

SOUTHEAST...CENTRAL GULF COAST STATES AND LOWER/MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI

VALLEY. MEANWHILE...A LINGERING PLUME OF MOISTURE EMANATING FROM

THE PLATEAU REGION APPEARS LIKELY TO PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR

ADDITIONAL STORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES INTO THE CENTRAL

PLAINS. THIS MOISTURE MAY ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT

BENEATH THE WEST NORTHWEST FLOW DEVELOPING FROM THE UPPER

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INTO THE NORTHERN MID ATLANTIC COAST

STATES...WHERE THE ENVIRONMENT IS EXPECTED TO BECOME MOST CONDUCIVE

TO AREAS OF ORGANIZED STRONG/SEVERE STORMS.

...UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY/MIDWEST...

VARIABILITY EXISTS AMONG THE MODELS CONCERNING THE STRENGTH OF THE

DEEP LAYER MEAN FLOW FIELDS AND SHEAR ACROSS THE REGION

TODAY...LIKELY DUE TO THE UNCERTAIN INFLUENCE OF A POSSIBLE REMNANT

MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE VORTEX AND JET STREAK ASSOCIATED WITH THE LARGE

ONGOING MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM NOW ADVANCING ACROSS THE

NORTHERN PLAINS. THE CURRENT CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN

ACROSS PARTS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND GREAT LAKES REGION

EARLY IN THE PERIOD. HOWEVER...THE MCV...AS WELL AS FORCING

ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMPULSE SPLITTING OFF THE LARGER-SCALE TROUGH

LIFTING INTO CANADA...PROBABLY WILL AID RENEWED CONVECTIVE

DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE STALLED WESTERN FLANK OF THE LINGERING SURFACE

OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL/CENTRAL MINNESOTA LATE THIS

AFTERNOON.

THE STRENGTH OF THE LOWER/MID TROPOSPHERIC WIND FIELDS WILL IMPACT

THE TORNADIC POTENTIAL...AND PROBABLY THE EXTENT OF THE LARGE HAIL

THREAT...IN THE PRESENCE OF THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES CHARACTERIZED BY

STEEP MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES...HIGH LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE CONTENT AND

LARGE CAPE /UP TO 3000-4000 J PER KG/. REGARDLESS...SUFFICIENT DEEP

LAYER SHEAR SHOULD EXIST FOR THE RISK FOR SUPERCELLS WITH INITIAL

ACTIVITY...BEFORE CONVECTION INCREASES IN COVERAGE AND CONSOLIDATES

IN THE PRESENCE OF LARGER SCALE LOW/MID-LEVEL WARM ADVECTION ALONG

THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. UPSCALE GROWTH INTO ANOTHER ORGANIZED

MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM SEEMS PROBABLE...BEFORE PROPAGATING

INTO/THROUGH MUCH OF WESTERN/CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS EVENING...WITH

POTENTIAL FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

...SRN GREAT LAKES INTO NORTHERN MID ATLANTIC STATES...

DETAILS CONCERNING POTENTIAL CONVECTIVE EVOLUTION REMAIN FAR FROM

CERTAIN...BUT INSTABILITY AND VERTICAL SHEAR ON THE SOUTHERN FRINGE

OF WESTERLY TO NORTHWESTERLY MID-LEVEL FLOW ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME

AT LEAST MARGINALLY FAVORABLE FOR ORGANIZED CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT.

AND SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY MAY BECOME CAPABLE OF PRODUCING

POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. IT COULD BE THAT THE REMNANTS OF A

CONVECTIVE CLUSTER...NOW SPREADING TOWARD/THROUGH SOUTHERN LAKE

MICHIGAN...CONTRIBUTE TO ANOTHER EVOLVING STORM CLUSTER ACROSS THE

UPPER OHIO VALLEY INTO THE NORTHERN MID ATLANTIC COAST STATES LATE

THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

..KERR/COHEN.. 07/23/2011

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