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April 10th - April 13th(?) Severe Weather, Moderate risk in place for Iowa today


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Just now, Powerball said:

Tornado Watch coming soon for SE Oklahoma, SW Arkansas and NETexas...

Mesoscale Discussion 0447
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   0234 PM CDT Mon Apr 11 2022

   Areas affected...portions of southeast Oklahoma and extreme
   northeast Texas into western and central Arkansas

   Concerning...Severe potential...Watch likely 

   Valid 111934Z - 112130Z

   Probability of Watch Issuance...80 percent

   SUMMARY...Scattered strong to severe storm development is likely
   over the next few hours. Scattered damaging gusts, very large hail,
   and a few tornadoes are all likely, and a strong tornado or two is
   also possible. A Tornado Watch issuance will be needed soon.

   DISCUSSION...An elongated 1006 mb surface low continues to meander
   east across northern Texas, with the triple point situated along the
   Red River near GLE, and a quasi-stationary baroclinic zone draped
   along a line roughly from ADM to FSM per latest surface
   observations. A deepening cumulus field has already become
   established across eastern OK into northeast TX and western AR. The
   approach of a modest 500 mb vort max over the Southern Plains
   combined with adequate diurnal heating should foster an increase in
   thunderstorm development near the triple point and along the
   quasi-stationary baroclinic zone over the next few hours. The last
   few deterministic HRRR and Warn-on-Forecast ensemble runs suggest
   that storms may become established as early as 20Z. 8.5 C/km
   mid-level lapse rates overspreading mid 60s F surface dewpoints are
   contributing to over 2000 J/kg MLCAPE, with MLCINH continuing to
   erode with time. 

   Modest veering/strengthening of the surface-700 mb flow yields
   modestly curved hodographs (via SRX and LZK VAD profilers), with
   supercell structures likely given the initial discrete storm mode
   expected. Damaging gusts and large hail may accompany any storm that
   can mature, and 2+ inch hail may also accompany the longer-lived
   robust supercells given the steep mid-level lapse rates. While the
   low-level jet continues to weaken and shift eastward towards the MS
   River, enough low-level directional shear should promote low-level
   rotation and tornado potential with the more persistent supercells.
   If supercells can remain discrete while propagating eastward into AR
   (closer to the low-level jet axis), a strong tornado or two may also
   occur. A Tornado Watch will be needed soon.

   ..Squitieri/Thompson.. 04/11/2022

   ...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov for graphic product...

   ATTN...WFO...LZK...SHV...TSA...FWD...OUN...

   LAT...LON   33529699 34749558 35559441 35719322 35609207 35189163
               34759162 33939222 33479328 33189416 33149512 33169582
               33529699 
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   URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
   Tornado Watch Number 107
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   330 PM CDT Mon Apr 11 2022

   The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

   * Tornado Watch for portions of 
     Western and central Arkansas
     East central and southeast Oklahoma
     Extreme northeast Texas

   * Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 330 PM until
     1100 PM CDT.

   * Primary threats include...
     A few tornadoes likely with a couple intense tornadoes possible
     Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3
       inches in diameter likely
     Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

   SUMMARY...Thunderstorm development is expected this afternoon into
   this evening from southeast Oklahoma and extreme northeast Texas
   into western and central Arkansas.  The storm environment favors a
   mix of discrete and clustered supercells capable of producing very
   large hail (near or larger than baseballs), damaging winds up to 70
   mph, and a couple of strong (EF2+) tornadoes into early tonight.

   The tornado watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles
   north and south of a line from 55 miles west southwest of Poteau OK
   to 20 miles north northeast of Pine Bluff AR. For a complete
   depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
   (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).

   PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

   REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for
   tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch
   area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for
   threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements
   and possible warnings.

   &&

   AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail
   surface and aloft to 3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind
   gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean
   storm motion vector 27025.

   ...Thompson
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Nice write up for tomorrow by FWD...

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FXUS64 KFWD 112005
AFDFWD

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
305 PM CDT Mon Apr 11 2022

...New Long Term...
.LONG TERM... /NEW/
/Tuesday through Monday/
While the longwave upper level trough will remain across the
Intermountain West Tuesday before ejecting out in the plains
Wednesday, the primary feature of interest to us is a strong
shortwave trough currently near Baja that will rotate around the
longwave and through Texas on Tuesday. It is rather unusual to be
able to spot and track these shortwave disturbances so clearly on
water vapor this time of the year, but being able to do so in the
current data and in model potential vorticity forecast raises the
confidence that strong forcing will spread over North and Central
Texas Tuesday afternoon.

Lift is just one of three important ingredients for convection.
The second ingredient is moisture, and after a couple days of
strong return flow off of the Gulf, we certainly have enough of
that in place. The final ingredient is instability, and it`s the
linchpin in this forecast. There will be instability below an
inversion or cap, but that cap means the atmosphere is effectively
stable and thus the 3rd ingredient is missing...that is unless
the stable layer/cap can be eroded. There are a few ways to break
a cap, one through heating and moistening of the surface airmass
which is easy to predict and anticipate. The other is through
dynamic lift, much harder for forecasters and computer models
alike to predict. This explains why there are a variety of
forecast solutions - ranging from widespread convection erupting
over the region during the afternoon to nothing happening at all.
(The models just don`t know how much of the cap to erode.) For the
forecast I am leaning toward the more convectively active
forecast solutions. The reason for this is that lifting of a cap
is easier when the lapse rates above the cap are nearly dry
adiabatic, which they will be tomorrow. This means that the lift
tomorrow isn`t spent lifting/modifying a thermodynamically stable
mid level. Instead the lift more effectively reaches down to the
level of the capping inversion and cools that layer...allowing
the very unstable air residing in the lowest part of the
atmosphere to be realized in the form of convection.

Given the strength of the forcing/lift and its timing, our storms
may not wait for peak heating and may not initially form on the
dryline like in our usual spring time severe weather events.
Storms could form as early as 1 or 2 pm. Increasing wind fields
ahead of the approaching shortwave trough will result in organized
wind shear, meaning that once storms develop they will be capable
of becoming supercells and producing a variety of severe weather.
Very large hail (baseball or larger) is the primary threat, but
damaging winds and tornadoes are also possible. Storms will
rapidly move east and northeast through the afternoon and early
evening hours. As the forcing from the shortwave trough moves out
of the region during the evening hours we should see activity
track east and the region may be in a lull for a few hours Tuesday
night. An arriving cold front may spark up some additional
showers and storms early Wednesday morning mainly across East and
Central Texas. Severe weather is possible with this activity too,
but the more linear storm mode and diminishing wind shear and
instability suggest it`s a lower end threat.
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1 minute ago, mob1 said:

Large TOG north of Little Rock.  

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Little Rock AR
813 PM CDT Mon Apr 11 2022

ARC045-085-119-120145-
/O.CON.KLZK.TO.W.0041.000000T0000Z-220412T0145Z/
Lonoke AR-Faulkner AR-Pulaski AR-
813 PM CDT Mon Apr 11 2022

...TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR CATO...GIBSON...OLMSTEAD...MACON...LITTLE
ROCK AIR FORCE BASE...

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN LONOKE...SOUTHEASTERN FAULKNER AND NORTHEASTERN PULASKI
COUNTIES...

At 811 PM CDT, a confirmed large and destructive tornado was located
near Olmstead, or 8 miles west of Little Rock AFB, moving east at 35
mph.

TORNADO EMERGENCY for CATO...GIBSON...OLMSTEAD...MACON...LITTLE ROCK
AIR FORCE BASE!. This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE
COVER NOW!
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Just now, Chinook said:

I think this is a debris signature east of Mayflower Arkansas. If not, then there's a tornado emergency, so there's got to be a tornado on ground, right?

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It's a bit muddied since it's so close to the radar site, I guess we'll need to wait for ground confirmation. 

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