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SPC AC 171958 DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0258 PM CDT TUE JUL 17 2012 VALID 172000Z - 181200Z ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS PORTIONS NEW ENGLAND TO ERN LOWER MI... ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS PORTIONS WI/WRN LM... ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS PORTIONS DAKOTAS/NERN WY/SERN MT... ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS PORTIONS GA/AL/FL PANHANDLE... --- UPDATES --- ...NERN CONUS... SINCE PREVIOUS OUTLOOK...BKN BAND OF STG-SVR TSTMS HAS DEVELOPED OVER SERN ONT AND IS MOVING ESEWD...WHILE BUILDING EWD OVER SRN QUE...AND MOVING INTO DESTABILIZING BOUNDARY LAYER. SVR THREAT REMAINS CONCENTRATED FROM NRN NY EWD ACROSS PORTIONS VT...NH AND WRN MAINE. REF WW 489 AND RELATED MESOSCALE DISCUSSIONS FOR LATEST NEAR-TERM GUIDANCE. ...SERN CONUS... SCATTERED TO LOCALLY NUMEROUS TSTMS WILL POSE CONTINUED THREAT FOR DAMAGING GUSTS AND SVR HAIL AS THEY MOVE GENERALLY SWWD ACROSS PORTIONS SRN GA/AL AND FL PANHANDLE...AROUND NWRN RIM OF MID-UPPER LEVEL VORTEX. REF WW 488 AND ACCOMPANYING MESOSCALE DISCUSSIONS FOR NOWCAST DETAILS. POTENTIAL BECOMES MORE DISORGANIZED/ISOLATED AMIDST SCATTERED TSTMS FARTHER N ACROSS TN VALLEY AND SWRN APPALACHIAN REGIONS. ...NRN PLAINS TO UPPER GREAT LAKES... MOST PROBABLE CORRIDOR FOR MCS DEVELOPMENT/MOVEMENT APPEARS TO BE ACROSS PORTIONS CENTRAL/NRN SD...BASED ON OBSERVED LOCATION OF LOW-LEVEL THETAE PLUME N OF FRONT...WITHIN WHICH CONSENSUS OF SHORT-FUSED/CONVECTION-ALLOWING GUIDANCE INDICATES TSTM CLUSTER MOVEMENT. REF SPC MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1482 FOR DETAILS REGARDING STG-SVR CONVECTION OVER WI. OTHERWISE...MINOR ADJUSTMENTS MADE TO SVR PROBABILITY AND GEN TSTM LINES BASED ON CONVECTIVE/INSTABILITY TRENDS. ..EDWARDS.. 07/17/2012 .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1108 AM CDT TUE JUL 17 2012/ ...SYNOPSIS... SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED 50-60 KT MIDLEVEL JET STREAK OVER ONTARIO WILL PROGRESS ESEWD ACROSS SRN QUEBEC AND NRN NEW ENGLAND...CONTRIBUTING TO INCREASING VERTICAL SHEAR AND LARGE-SCALE FORCING FOR ASCENT OVER THESE REGIONS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. ELSEWHERE...A SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER WRN WY WILL CONTINUE NEWD INTO THE WRN DAKOTAS BY TONIGHT...WHILE FARTHER W AN UPPER LOW WILL REMAIN QUASI-STATIONARY ALONG THE SWRN ORE/NWRN CA COASTS. FINALLY...AN UPPER LOW OVER NERN FL WILL DRIFT NNWWD TOWARD THE SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. AT THE SURFACE...LOW PRESSURE OVER SWRN ONTARIO WILL DEVELOP ENEWD INTO NRN ME BY 18/00Z WHILE TRAILING COLD FRONT SETTLES SWD THROUGH THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY...NRN NEW ENGLAND AND THE GREAT LAKES. THE WRN EXTENSION OF THIS BOUNDARY WILL LINK WITH A SECONDARY SURFACE LOW WHICH IS FORECAST TO REMAIN QUASI-STATIONARY ALONG THE SD-NEB BORDER. ...LOWER GREAT LAKES INTO NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AS MENTIONED ABOVE...DEEP-LAYER WLY WIND FIELD /AND RESULTANT VERTICAL SHEAR/ WILL STRENGTHEN ACROSS THE AREA TODAY IN CONCERT WITH PROGRESSIVE SHORTWAVE TROUGH. THIS AIRFLOW REGIME WILL ALSO PROMOTE THE EWD ADVECTION OF STEEP MIDLEVEL LAPSE RATES OBSERVED BY THE 12Z APX AND DTX SOUNDINGS INTO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES. WHEN COUPLED WITH DECREASING CLOUDS AND BOUNDARY LAYER DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S...ENVIRONMENT IS EXPECTED TO BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE BY AFTERNOON WITH MLCAPE VALUES INCREASING TO 1000-2000 J/KG. LATEST CONVECTION-ALLOWING AND MESOSCALE MODEL GUIDANCE SUGGESTS THAT TSTMS WILL INITIATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG COLD FRONT OVER THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY WITH ACTIVITY GROWING UPSCALE INTO A BROKEN CONVECTIVE BAND AS IT PROGRESSES SEWD INTO NRN NEW ENGLAND AND UPSTATE NY. MORE ISOLATED STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG DEVELOPING LAKE BREEZE FRONT IN THE LEE OF LAKES ERIE AND ONTARIO...AS WELL AS WRN EXTENSION OF COLD FRONT IN LOWER MI. THE STRONGEST LOW AND DEEP-LAYER SHEAR WILL RESIDE FROM THE ADIRONDACKS EWD ACROSS NRN PARTS OF VT/NH INTO ME WHERE THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR SUPERCELLS AND BOWING STRUCTURES CAPABLE OF A COUPLE TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. VERTICAL SHEAR WILL DECREASE SWD ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA...THOUGH THE MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL STILL PROMOTE VIGOROUS UP/DOWNDRAFTS CAPABLE OF DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. FOR ADDITIONAL NEAR-TERM GUIDANCE...SEE MCD 1480. ...SERN STATES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... 12Z 500-MB ANALYSIS AND REGIONAL SOUNDING DATA INDICATED A POCKET OF COLDER AIR IN THE MIDLEVELS /I.E. -8 TO -9 C/ WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH PW VALUES OF 1.75-2.00 INCHES AND DAYTIME HEATING TO YIELD AFTERNOON MLCAPE OF 2000-3000+ J/KG. CONVERGENCE INVOF OF LOW-LEVEL CIRCULATION EVIDENT IN VISIBLE SATELLITE OVER CNTRL GA AS OF 15Z AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE TROUGH WILL LIKELY SERVE AS THE FOCI FOR SCATTERED-NUMEROUS TSTMS THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE VERTICAL SHEAR WILL REMAIN WEAK...THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY WILL PROMOTE PULSE AND MULTICELL STORM CLUSTERS CAPABLE OF LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME HAIL. ...NRN HIGH PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT... SHORTWAVE TROUGH MENTIONED IN SYNOPSIS WILL AUGMENT LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG INVERTED SURFACE TROUGH TO GIVE RISE TO WIDELY SCATTERED TSTMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER ERN MT/NERN WY INTO THE WRN DAKOTAS. WHILE VERTICAL SHEAR WILL NOT BE PARTICULARLY STRONG...VERTICALLY VEERING WIND PROFILES WILL COINCIDE WITH STEEP MIDLEVEL LAPSE RATES AND A MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER TO PROMOTE LOOSELY ORGANIZED STORM CLUSTERS WITH A RISK FOR LOCALLY DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. ...WI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... MULTI-MODEL CONSENSUS SUGGESTS AN INCREASING RISK FOR SURFACE-BASED TSTMS BY MID-LATE AFTERNOON ALONG THE SWD-MOVING COLD FRONT WITH ACTIVITY PERHAPS BEING AIDED BY A WEAK MIDLEVEL IMPULSE CURRENTLY OVER NRN MN. MODIFICATION OF 12Z GRB SOUNDING FOR ANTICIPATED AFTERNOON CONDITIONS SUGGESTS THAT CAP WOULD BE ELIMINATED FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 90S. GIVEN THE MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER AND RESULTANT MLCAPE OF 2000-3000 J/KG...AS WELL AS MODEST WLY MIDLEVEL FLOW...SETUP MAY YIELD A FORWARD-PROPAGATING CLUSTER OF TSTMS/MCS WITH AN ASSOCIATED RISK FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. ...INTERIOR PACIFIC NW AND NRN INTERMOUNTAIN REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... MORNING WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A SERIES OF VORTICITY MAXIMA PIVOTING AROUND PARENT UPPER LOW. FORCING ASSOCIATED WITH THESE FEATURES WILL COMBINE WITH MODEST LAPSE RATES AND PW VALUES OF 1.00-1.40 INCHES TO FOSTER WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL. 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