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NE OK/ NW AR/ SE KS/ SW MO Winter 2011


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SGF seems much more concerned about the likelihood of a major winter weather event than the models would indicate.

THE DEVELOPMENT...TRACK AND IMPACT FROM THIS POTENTIAL WINTER

STORM REMAINS HIGHLY UNCERTAIN. HOWEVER MODEL SOLUTIONS SUGGEST THE

POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS OF WINTER PRECIPITATION

WHERE THIS WINTER STORM OCCURS. ACCUMULATING SNOW...SLEET AND

FREEZING RAIN APPEAR POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THE

MISSOURI OZARKS PRIMARILY MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. FORECASTS

WILL BE FURTHER REFINED AS NEW MODEL DATA IS RECEIVED. EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT...TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENTS...MEDIA AND ALL INTERESTED

PARTIES SHOULD STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FROM

YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI.

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Tulsa would be creamed with ice if the 18Z GFS verifies....which is going out on a massive limb, BTW, LOL.

This thing may rev up after it's done with OKC, but I'll take 0.50-0.75" of QPF compared to what we've seen so far this winter. I have to keep my expectations tempered, esp. after the Christmas Eve blizzard last year. That was a rare event for the Southern Plains, indeed.

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I'm going to discount the Euro for now. It's own ensemble members are farther south, the operational GFS and ensemble members are farther south. I think the position and strength of the 1058mb artic high just to the east of the Hudson Bay will play a huge factor in how (particularly where) the southwest trough ejects. I think the SLP tracks from Dallas to Little Rock to Cincinnati ( strengthening over Arkansas). Wide open Gulf of Mexico, powerful system that is strengthening as it moves through our area, plenty of cold air - I think Missouri gets the brunt of this system. Now the questions, is precip type and where the heaviest falls. Stay tuned. This will be a fun one to watch.

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Tulsa would be creamed with ice if the 18Z GFS verifies....which is going out on a massive limb, BTW, LOL.

This thing may rev up after it's done with OKC, but I'll take 0.50-0.75" of QPF compared to what we've seen so far this winter. I have to keep my expectations tempered, esp. after the Christmas Eve blizzard last year. That was a rare event for the Southern Plains, indeed.

Creamed with ice? 18z GFS BUFKIT shows they get mostly rain. 0.05" of freezing rain... 0.4" of snow. Even Joplin only gets a little snow. However, temps are really close like usual...

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I'm going to discount the Euro for now. It's own ensemble members are farther south, the operational GFS and ensemble members are farther south. I think the position and strength of the 1058mb artic high just to the east of the Hudson Bay will play a huge factor in how (particularly where) the southwest trough ejects. I think the SLP tracks from Dallas to Little Rock to Cincinnati ( strengthening over Arkansas). Wide open Gulf of Mexico, powerful system that is strengthening as it moves through our area, plenty of cold air - I think Missouri gets the brunt of this system. Now the questions, is precip type and where the heaviest falls. Stay tuned. This will be a fun one to watch.

Agreed.

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Creamed with ice? 18z GFS BUFKIT shows they get mostly rain. 0.05" of freezing rain... 0.4" of snow. Even Joplin only gets a little snow. However, temps are really close like usual...

My thinking is the timing of arctic air will be faster than what the GFS is showing. Do I have model output to support this opinion? No, just going off of similar scenarios in the past.

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This is a better one for Tulsa and Bartlesville

That's either ice if temps support it or rain. The blue line is the 0 degree line at 850 MB. Anything north and west of that is probably snow... anything east or south is rain or ice.

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My thinking is the timing of arctic air will be faster than what the GFS is showing. Do I have model output to support this opinion? No, just going off of similar scenarios in the past.

The models ALWAYS struggle with the shallow layer of cold air on the southern plains...

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