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Sept 11-12 Wednesday, Thursday Storm Threat


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that is some pretty serious heat over the southern lakes / northern ohio valley. 95-98 in a lot of areas. but, completely void of any convective activity thus far too until you get down to the ohio river. 

Yeah definitely is... lots of low 90s over low 70s from Cleveland on south to N KY. Pretty steamy for September. 

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Here is the SPC analysis 700-500mb lapse rates for 6/1/11, for what they're worth:

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I changed your image in this reply to 17z...to show how that reanalysis tool is a bit jumpy. I remember the lapse rates more like the 17z frame...though I do remember the steeper stuff in the morning like Scott was referring to

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On the maps I'm looking at (which are fairly low resolution) I didn't see anything on the dynamic tropopause (1.5 PVU sfc) that jumped out at me on either the NAM or GFS. You might be able to shed more light with better maps. 

 

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I mean it is very subtle, but there is some hint of a wave on the NAM. GFS is a little quicker in the day with it.

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Atmosphere over W PA back through OH is a bit more capped today than is progged over us tomorrow. There's a pocket of +12C at 700mb there and synoptically... heights have been rising at 500mb through the day.

 

90/74 at ROC right now...Kevin wishes his football trip was several days early. :lol:

That's pretty nuts for this time of year. Most of lower Ontario has dews in the 70s right now.

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if we can just get Wiz to do the scoreboard at a little league game tomorrow...someone might stand a chc of getting a good cell out of this. 

 

not that i'll be chasing, but if i could...i feel like i'd want to be out a bit west of ALB to start the day and see what develops. 

 

ChrisM and I may do some chasing tomorrow.  Probably going to skip math tomorrow.  I'm just going to send an email and see what we're doing but I think it's still review of some topics from college algebra.  

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15z srefs don't appear to be so generous.  

It's so intriguing seeing all models develop QPF tomorrow.  When you have strong caps models can really struggle to develop anything at all.  Obviously, there are times where they are also too aggressive but for every model to have something?  

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Waiting on some higher resolution maps, but 18z NAM looks more impressive for convective prospects tomorrow.

 

NAM 700mb VV's for 21z tomorrow...looks like a little something swings through and kicks off some convection.

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Careful with those images, because it can be tough to decipher what is synoptic lift vs what could be modeled convection.

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I didn't mean it like that..lol. Just saying it can be tough to decipher.

That's true, especially with the NAM possibly suffering from convective feedback, but we don't know.

 

Wiz, the NAM CAPEs may be a bit overdone, as we've seen many times before. With that said, there's not much difference between 3000 and 4000 once you get up that high.

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90/74 at ROC right now...Kevin wishes his football trip was several days early. :lol:

That's pretty nuts for this time of year. Most of lower Ontario has dews in the 70s right now.

often times eml's are associated with big heat (for obvious reasons). One thing the EML does is allow for big sfc dews through underruning...not as easy to mix out. Combine that with 7-8.5c/km lapse rates = huge CAPE.
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FWIW, the 18z 4km NAM fires up a pretty good line of storms from upstate NY into NNE tomorrow, but has next to nothing in SNE. Some convection tries to get going in NE PA, but it fizzles. The depiction here lines up with what the SPC had in their latest Day 2 outlook.

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That's true, especially with the NAM possibly suffering from convective feedback, but we don't know.

 

Wiz, the NAM CAPEs may be a bit overdone, as we've seen many times before. With that said, there's not much difference between 3000 and 4000 once you get up that high.

 

Is that what the NAM shows?  I didn't look at the 18z NAM...I was just looking at the environment to our west and gauging what we may be in for tomorrow.  

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Is that what the NAM shows?  I didn't look at the 18z NAM...I was just looking at the environment to our west and gauging what we may be in for tomorrow.  

18z NAM has MUCAPE near 4000, MLCAPE 3000-3500 and SBCAPE of up to 4000.

GFS was 2500-3000 for MUCAPE and SBCAPE of 3000-3500.

 

Details aren't too important, so if it's 3000 vs. 4000, that's not really much of a difference either way. I didn't mean to come off snappy or anything. Few would doubt we're going to have plenty of instability tomorrow...

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18z NAM has MUCAPE near 4000, MLCAPE 3000-3500 and SBCAPE of up to 4000.

GFS was 2500-3000 for MUCAPE and SBCAPE of 3000-3500.

 

Details aren't too important, so if it's 3000 vs. 4000, that's not really much of a difference either way. I didn't mean to come off snappy or anything. Few would doubt we're going to have plenty of instability tomorrow...

 

I wasn't really discussing it with regards to being a difference maker...just love looking at numbers like that lol.  Sometimes I'll just look at mesoanalysis of the central Plains when they have these massive cape values and just stare at them for several minutes.

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