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June 1, 2012 - Severe Thunderstorms/Tornadoes Event


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DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK

NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK

0100 AM CDT THU MAY 31 2012

VALID 011200Z - 021200Z

...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS A LARGE PART OF THE

EASTERN STATES...

..MUCH OF THE EASTERN STATES

THE FIRST DAY OF JUNE WILL SEE THE EAST-NORTHEASTWARD ADVANCEMENT OF

A POTENT UPPER TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE CONUS...WITH

DEEP CONVECTIVE/SEVERE POTENTIAL FOCUSED ALONG/AHEAD OF AN EASTWARD

MOVING COLD FRONT AS IT CROSSES THE APPALACHIANS FRIDAY

MORNING/AFTERNOON. THE PARENT SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY TREND

TOWARD A SLIGHT NEGATIVE TILT ON FRIDAY...WITH A STEADILY

STRENGTHENING BELT OF DEEP LAYER SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW OVERSPREADING

MUCH OF THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS AND MID-ATLANTIC/NORTHEAST STATES.

ACCORDINGLY...AMPLE FORCING FOR ASCENT/VERTICAL SHEAR WILL

CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINED STRONG/SEVERE TSTMS WITHIN A DIURNALLY

DESTABILIZING BOUNDARY LAYER...WITH SUCH DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED IN

VICINITY OF THE COLD FRONT OR PERHAPS A PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH. IT IS

LIKELY THAT AMPLE PRE-FRONTAL INSOLATION WILL COINCIDE WITH AN

INCREASINGLY MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER...SUCH THAT A BROAD AREA OF

1000-2000 J/KG MLCAPE SEEMS LIKELY FROM THE CAROLINAS TO THE

DELMARVA/SOUTHERN PA...ALONG/SOUTH OF A NORTHWARD-SHIFTING WARM

FRONT ACROSS THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES/DELMARVA. THAT SAID...LOCALLY

STRONGER DESTABILIZATION WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF THE

CAROLINAS/GA/NORTH FL ALBEIT WITHIN A WEAKER SHEAR REGIME.

OVERALL...DAMAGING WINDS /POTENTIALLY WIDESPREAD AT THAT/ AND SEVERE

HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS FROM WHAT SHOULD MAINLY BE A

MULTICELLULAR/LINEAR CONVECTIVE MODE ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF THE

SLIGHT RISK AREA. THAT SAID...SOME SUPERCELLS...INCLUDING A TORNADO

THREAT...COULD OCCUR MAINLY ACROSS VA/DELMARVA REGION INTO SOUTHERN

PA/NJ PROVIDED 1/ SUFFICIENT DESTABILIZATION OCCURS NEAR THE WARM

FRONT AND 2/ SEMI-DISCRETE DEVELOPMENT OCCURS AHEAD OF THE COLD

FRONT WHERE A LINEAR MODE SHOULD BE MORE DOMINANT. SOMEWHAT HIGHER

PROBABILITIES/PERHAPS EVEN A CATEGORICAL MODERATE RISK MIGHT BE

WARRANTED IN SUBSEQUENT CONVECTIVE OUTLOOKS.

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SLGT risk... 30% probs

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OVERALL...DAMAGING WINDS /POTENTIALLY WIDESPREAD AT THAT/ AND SEVERE

HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS FROM WHAT SHOULD MAINLY BE A

MULTICELLULAR/LINEAR CONVECTIVE MODE ACROSS THE MAJORITY OF THE

SLIGHT RISK AREA. THAT SAID...SOME SUPERCELLS...INCLUDING A TORNADO

THREAT...COULD OCCUR MAINLY ACROSS VA/DELMARVA REGION INTO SOUTHERN

PA/NJ PROVIDED 1/ SUFFICIENT DESTABILIZATION OCCURS NEAR THE WARM

FRONT AND 2/ SEMI-DISCRETE DEVELOPMENT OCCURS AHEAD OF THE COLD

FRONT WHERE A LINEAR MODE SHOULD BE MORE DOMINANT. SOMEWHAT HIGHER

PROBABILITIES/PERHAPS EVEN A CATEGORICAL MODERATE RISK MIGHT BE

WARRANTED IN SUBSEQUENT CONVECTIVE OUTLOOKS.

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If my pay check does not come tomorrow and I can't get down there I am going to absolutely flip.

Anyways time for sleep...been sleeping 1-3 hours a night since last Thursday and need some rest for Friday...would probably leave CT around 6 AM.

Thats like a 8 hr drive... but okay... dunno why you would come down here to chase

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Thats like a 8 hr drive... but okay... dunno why you would come down here to chase

We'd be going to around to extreme northern MD or perhaps southern PA...that's more like a 4-5 hours drive.

My friend takes two weeks off from work the final week of May and first week of June so we can chase around the area...next week looks meh around here for severe wx so we may as well travel a bit. If there wasn't a threat for tornadoes idk if we would go or not. Also, this will be June 1st...we missed out last year..that is NOT happening again.

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We'd be going to around to extreme northern MD or perhaps southern PA...that's more like a 4-5 hours drive.

My friend takes two weeks off from work the final week of May and first week of June so we can chase around the area...next week looks meh around here for severe wx so we may as well travel a bit. If there wasn't a threat for tornadoes idk if we would go or not. Also, this will be June 1st...we missed out last year..that is NOT happening again.

Chasing around here sucks. All there is, is traffic, lights, get stuck behind a school bus if between 230-330. We had a hard enough chase Tuesday but, we succeeded thankfully and got close to a possible tornado touchdown around Carlisle, pa.

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From LWX early morning discussion

WARM FRONT WILL LIFT TO THE NORTH OF THE MASON DIXON LINE EARLY

FRIDAY MORNING. THIS WILL PLACE THE CWA IN A WARM SECTOR...WITH

TEMPERATURES WARMING AOA 80F AND DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER TO MID 60S.

DESPITE CLOUD COVER TO START THE DAY...HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT WILL

CONTRIBUTE TO CAPES OF 1K J/KG TO PERHAPS LOCALLY 2K J/KG ACROSS THE

CWA AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST.

NAM REMAINS FASTER THAN THE GFS...AND IS PREFERRED...ALTHOUGH THE

TEMPORAL GAP IS CLOSING. POPS LEAN MORE TOWARD A NAM/SREFS BLEND.

NAM TIMING BRINGS STRONGEST FORCING/LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE DURING THE

AFTERNOON/EVENING COINCIDING WITH THE BEST INSTABILITY. THIS WOULD

ALSO OCCUR IN TANDEM WITH STRENGTHENING WIND FIELDS THAT WOULD TEND

TO INCREASE SHEAR. RESULT MAY BE AN ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER

EPISODE...FAVORING BOTH LINEAR AND SUPERCELLULAR CHARACTERISTICS IF

THE ABOVE FACTORS COME TOGETHER. SPC CONTINUES SLIGHT RISK FOR DAY 2

ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA.

IN ADDITION TO SEVERE WEATHER...PRECIPITABLE WATERS ABOVE 1.5 INCHES

SUGGEST A HEAVY RAINFALL/FLASH FLOODING RISK ACROSS THE CWA. HEAVY

RAINFALL WORDING CONTINUES IN THE GRIDS/PRODUCTS.

BRUNT OF THE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST OF THE CHESAPEAKE

BAY DURING THE MID TO LATE EVENING. MODELS SHOW DEWPOINTS /AND

PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES/ STARTING TO DECREASE OVERNIGHT AS DRIER

AIR MOVES IN ON NORTHWEST WINDS.

-- End Changed Discussion --

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Some values I pulled off the 06z NAM (forgive me for not listing all that Wiz mentioned in his post, I'm learning :) )

Values from 18z Friday

sfc dews: 65-70

925 dews: ~15C

850 dews: ~20C

PWATS: 1.5

sfc temps: ~80 north with near 90 south

925 temps: ~+20C

850 temps: ~+20C

Helicity

0-3km: 100-150 (from PA line to VA line)

0-1km: 100-200 (200 is over the NE MD area)

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OMG @ BWI 0z, I'd be so happy if that came about in a farm field somewhere. Eskimo Joe I think would rather have a hostage situation.

I will always take a natural hazard over a human hazard. It's easier to manage, believe me.

Check the sounding for Lancaster, PA (KLNS) on the 00z NAM at 48 hrs on Earl's site...

Southern PA and Northern MD look pretty nice...

SWODY2 gets tweaked during the afternoon, correct?

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Sunshine baby, gotta get that sunshine tomorrow or this will be one big bust.

true..i think we all know that cloud cover will limit instability..but let's try to focus on the likelihood of seeing significant destabilization, which in my opinion is quite high (and I think most guidance would agree)...if I was in PHL or ABE, I'd might be concerned about being on the wrong side of the warm front...

a couple things that come to mind just from a quick look at guidance:

a) strength of the cap tomorrow morning...without a cap you'll see a very polluted warm sector with a lot multi-cellular clusters

B) location of the warm front...best chance of anyone seeing a tornado will be to the south of that warm front (look at 0-1 / 0-3 SRH)...hard to really put a location on it right now, timing is a big factor, but an initial guess would be northern MD and south central PA.

c) how much heating do we see tomorrow...if you look at the instability maps from the NAM you noticed the greatest instability/lower LCLs right around DC from 18z to 0z, while further south near RIC they see much more in the way of heating, and LCLs jump into the 1500m to 2000m range...i've seen this before where you have can too much heating --> leading to elevated LCLs during peak heating

in general, a pretty awesome setup for the time of year and the amount of instability we will have (hopefully) to work with.

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