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June 28-July 8th Severe Potential


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I think we'll see a slight risk for today but don't know if we'll get it on the first outlook.

STOUT EML SHOULD PROHIBIT

SFC-BASED STORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE FRONT...DESPITE PRESENCE OF

MORE SUBSTANTIAL BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE RELATIVE TO POINTS W AND E.

HOWEVER...AREAS OF MOISTURE WITHIN AND ABOVE THE LOWEST PORTION OF

THE EML MAY YIELD SCTD AREAS/SHORT LINES OF ACCAS/HIGH-BASED STORMS

THROUGH THE DAY AHEAD OF NEB/SD UPR IMPULSE. ANY SUSTAINED STORMS

THAT DO FORM IN THIS ENVIRONMENT COULD PRODUCE SVR HAIL/LOCALLY DMGG

WIND GIVEN STEEP MID LVL LAPSE RATES. BUT THE LIKELIHOOD FOR

SUSTAINED STORMS APPEARS TOO LOW ATTM TO WARRANT UPGRADE TO

CATEGORICAL SLIGHT RISK.

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The 12z HRRR manages to pop a decent cell across northern Cook but it's really hard to find models showing anything beyond super isolated action in the region....lift simply too anemic as our mid levels torch. RAP is totally dry and really kills off instability with the lake front.

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There actually is a fairly decent shortwave, or a trigger, moving through MN/IA/WI right now.

The question is will it be enough to break through the 16-17*C temps at 700mb?

everything else, from the shear to the dynamics to the moisture and instability is A-OK.

If we can get the temps at 700mb just to cool a degree or two, the magic numbers needed to get things popping will be 102*F/69*F

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from LOT

AXIS OF INSTABILITY PROGGED TO BE BETWEEN THE LEAD TROUGH AND THE

COOL FRONT WHERE DEW POINTS IN THE UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S TO BE

POOLED. THIS AXIS TO RUN W-E ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES AT 18Z

AND THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES AT 00Z. SHORT WAVE SEEN IN WATER VAPOR

SAT LOOP WAS MOVING TO THE FAR W END OF THE MN-IA BORDER AT 1345Z.

MODELS GENERALLY SHOW THIS DISTURBANCE TRACKING E ALONG THE MN-IA

BORDER THROUGH MID DAY THEN TURN ESE ACROSS SW WI AND N CENTRAL IL

DURING THE AFTERNOON. BEST CHANCE FOR TS DEVELOPMENT WILL BE WHERE

THE POOLED LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS IN PLACE AND WHERE THE COOLER MID

LEVEL AIR ASSOCIATED WITH THE SHORT WAVE TROUGH REMOVES THE CAP

BASED AT AROUND 825HPA.

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convergence and surface frontogensis def on the increase along the western shore of the lake now...we'll see if it's any help

More agitated Cu showing up along the frontal zone. It's only 1817 UTC...really don't think we get out of this afternoon w/o the cap breaking somewhere in WI/IL.

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I'm talking severe convection...so yes essentially.

Thanks, it's from DVN, so different situation but I found this odd wording nonetheless

BASED ON WHAT OCCURRED LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING...THERE

IS NO SUCH THING AS A CAP. THE QUESTION NOW IS WHAT WILL OCCUR

LATER THIS AFTERNOON. NONLINEAR PROCESSES WILL BE DOMINATING THE

SENSIBLE WX. THE ONE THING THAT IS KNOWN IS THAT ANY CONVECTION

THAT OCCURS THIS AFTERNOON WILL LIKELY BE ELEVATED AND NOT SURFACE

BASED.

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Tony and Thundersnow know what they're doing and we're seeing and upward trend in action on the RAP as well...so my confidence is inching up.

yea these kinds of days are almost impossible to predict. you just have to follow mesoscale trends and go from there. i wanna see what some of the afd's are saying.

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CU field is starting to push into the city now but is still just festering under the mid level torch...at this point, if anything goes up from that line it will be to my south.

LOT still talks about best shot along and just behind the front.

18z NAM throws a bone with another fantasy MCS tomorrow night

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