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Severe Weather Threat 4/27-4/28

As MichelleH mentioned, I am a bit worried that the southern extent of the risk area is being overlooked. I don't think the SPC is doing anything egregious, but I don't want to have a situation where significant nocturnal tornadoes occur in places that the general public doesn't expect them. I know local meteorologists are under no obligation to mirror the SPC, but nobody wants to be the person who cried wolf and have their reputation tarnished. At any rate, I don't envy forecasters. If you know one, give them a hug.
 
STP based solely on the lowest 500meters are already up to 6 at merely 10am. Honestly not feeling very good about this.

I don't feel good either. The 12z HRRR has trended more linear, but given that we are practically very close to the event beginning in a sense, i usually don't trust the last of A HRRR run before a event. The 06z remains a volatile situation. This really won't end well with a near 50 kt jet translation speed, and rapid moisture advection/instability. The only thing is we see more of a linear mode than expected, which is always a possibility in these high end events. It happened on 5/6/24, due to the orientation of the supercells being parallel to the 850mb. Not saying that will happen but storm mode is a lot more complex with these events then it tends to be.
 
I think using 500mb RH on the NAM is weirdly useful. It manages to depict convection and more subtle features like cloud cover in the atmosphere. Will need to watch what stability is left of this MCS.

Can see roll clouds now across S MO indicating some stability still left. Still think, we may need to clear out a bit more here. like @jharris0220 said, i can see a potentially breaking up MCS that develops seperate supercells south of the boundary. Dangerous situation, with OWS supercells being a possibility toom
 
It is extremely sunny outside right now, and there is a few lines of weak storm activity forming to our west that is probably elevated.

Dews RN are 58, highs are forecasted to reach 72, and we are not even in the 2% tornado risk right now.

We'll see how this evolves...
 
Warm sector clearing out now in S MO, roll clouds at play, indicating stability still and likely no developing cells until later. That is not a junk warm sector at all though. 77/70 almost in some areas. How far north your boundary lifts depends on this risk spatially.

Latest station plot just got 80/69 south of that boundary, we are warming quick
 
Warm sector clearing out now in S MO, roll clouds at play, indicating stability still and likely no developing cells until later. That is not a junk warm sector at all though. 77/70 almost in some areas. How far north your boundary lifts depends on this risk spatially.

Latest station plot just got 80/69 south of that boundary, we are warming quick
Just piggybacking off of that (still can’t posts pictures, but oh well), there’s a pretty noticeable, I think, prefrontal trough/confluence area in eastern/southeastern Missouri on both MSL Pressure and surface Obs.

So you have two possible OWS convective initiators already filling in (HCRs and Confluence)
 
Brad arnold is going live at 1pm. Any storm chasers in this thread staying in dixie to storm chase? TN/MS/AR? If so and the people that are in that area be careful just because we are not in a moderate in that area doesn't mean we won't see a long track strong/violent tornado there.
 
Warm sector clearing out now in S MO, roll clouds at play, indicating stability still and likely no developing cells until later. That is not a junk warm sector at all though. 77/70 almost in some areas. How far north your boundary lifts depends on this risk spatially.

Latest station plot just got 80/69 south of that boundary, we are warming quick
Yeah I think any type of MCS failure mode is totally off the table at this point. We will get it, but honestly we dont even need more sun with the thermos already in place. Next failure mode to watch for is maybe early convection and then everything going linear but the table it set for a very high end day.
 
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