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June 28-July 1 Severe Threat


Thundersnow12

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Indeed! Two hours later it slams Chicago with 70-80 MPH winds with an impressive simulated structure. I definitely am happy I don't have to fly in/out of O'hare tomorrow evening.

 

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Impressive comma head there. Just wish it would get here a few hours earlier. If we're going to get rocked, I'd like to at least get rocked & get some good pictures and vids too. 

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I'm very concerned about what the Nam is showing for the Ord area.  The STP is extremely strong, but it may not be strong enough, given it's northern bias even 24 hrs out from the event  Currently it is showing the surface low just north of Chicago with the best 0-1 helicity vales, coupled with 0-3km values in southern WI.  That is causing the STP signal to be somewhat stretched from southern WI to ORD.  I'm fearful that if the surface low tracks another 75 miles south from it's current forecast location, we could see even larger helicity values over metro Chicago, causing the STP signal to centered right over the area, and even stronger that what it's showing now.

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The 0Z 12KM NAM has a very high significant tornado parameter moving across eastern Iowa into northern Illinois during the afternoon and evening hours tomorrow with values maxing out above 10. I haven't seen the 0Z 4KM NAM yet but once it pulls up I'll post a few of the simulated reflectivity and updraft helicity images. This is definitely a setup that could go in the books with the overall rarity of having a summer-time environment combine with a winter-time kinematic setup.

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80kts at 850 is off the charts any time of the year let alone in June of all months.

 

 

The thing that gets me is the lack of inversion.  Probably 99% of the time when you see a sounding with that kind of flow aloft there's also crappy low level lapse rates.

 

Seems like this rapidly deepening secondary low idea has some legs.

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I'm very concerned about what the Nam is showing for the Ord area.  The STP is extremely strong, but it may not be strong enough, given it's northern bias even 24 hrs out from the event  Currently it is showing the surface low just north of Chicago with the best 0-1 helicity vales, coupled with 0-3km values in southern WI.  That is causing the STP signal to be somewhat stretched from southern WI to ORD.  I'm fearful that if the surface low tracks another 75 miles south from it's current forecast location, we could see even larger helicity values over metro Chicago, causing the STP signal to centered right over the area, and even stronger that what it's showing now.

 

150-200 miles north is not 'just north'.  It's showing the surface low bisecting Wisconsin from SW to NE pretty much, so it would stand to reason the greatest threat would be just south and east of that.

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I'm very concerned about what the Nam is showing for the Ord area.  The STP is extremely strong, but it may not be strong enough, given it's northern bias even 24 hrs out from the event  Currently it is showing the surface low just north of Chicago with the best 0-1 helicity vales, coupled with 0-3km values in southern WI.  That is causing the STP signal to be somewhat stretched from southern WI to ORD.  I'm fearful that if the surface low tracks another 75 miles south from it's current forecast location, we could see even larger helicity values over metro Chicago, causing the STP signal to centered right over the area, and even stronger that what it's showing now.

 

 

Kinda related to something I was talking over with Tony.  I'm not sure there's a whole lot of difference between an EHI of 10 or 15 or 20.  Numerically there is of course but any one of those suggests a very volatile environment.

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