Wednesday, May 5, 2010

DAY48SVR: Nws Storm Prediction Center Norman Ok

ACUS48 KWNS 050829
SWOD48
SPC AC 050828

DAY 4-8 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0328 AM CDT WED MAY 05 2010

VALID 081200Z - 131200Z

...DISCUSSION...

THE 05/00Z ECMWF REMAINS CONSISTENT WITH AT LEAST THE PREVIOUS TWO
RUNS IN SUGGESTING THAT A SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE
FROM THE ERN PACIFIC INTO THE LOWER CO VALLEY ON DAY 5 /SUN MAY
9TH/...BEFORE EJECTING NEWD THROUGH THE FOUR-CORNERS REGION INTO THE
CNTRL PLAINS ON DAY 6 /MON MAY 10TH/. WHILE THE LATEST GFS HAS
TRENDED AWAY FROM THIS SCENARIO...PREVIOUS RUNS ARE MUCH MORE
SIMILAR...AS ARE A NUMBER OF 05/00Z MEDIUM-RANGE ENSEMBLE MEMBERS.

AN ASSOCIATED LEE CYCLONE IS FORECAST TO DEEPEN CONSIDERABLY OVER
ERN CO...ALLOWING FOR THE NWD RETURN OF AN AIR MASS THAT SHOULD BE
RELATIVELY MOIST GIVEN THE UNDISTURBED STATE OF THE WRN GULF OF
MEXICO. ASSUMING A SETUP SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE CURRENT ECMWF...ALL
THE INGREDIENTS SHOULD BE IN PLACE FOR A REGIONAL SEVERE WEATHER
EVENT ON DAY 6 ALONG THE DRY LINE FROM WRN KANSAS SWWD TO NWRN TX.

THEREAFTER...IT APPEARS THAT ANOTHER...POTENTIALLY LARGER-SCALE
TROUGH WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED OVER THE WRN STATES.
HOWEVER...DETAILS IN ITS EVOLUTION ARE UNCLEAR. THEREFORE...NO
ADDITIONAL AREAS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THIS FORECAST.

..MEAD.. 05/05/2010

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