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Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

Assuming you're talking about Tuesday, the CAPE is pretty solid, but IMO the low level shear just isn't there

18zgfs has started the trend up on the shear … low level shear particular…. Tonight’s runs be interesting … euro been more agressive with shear
ah ok. Also I will be staying up for the 2 AM D2 update to see if the upgrade to MDT.
 
Folks Monday is May 19…a tornado outbreak was supposed to happen in Oklahoma May 20, 2019 but it’s the same exact Monday.

This is weird..


2025 is trolling us… and bringing nostalgia as well.
 
18zgfs has started the trend up on the shear … low level shear particular…. Tonight’s runs be interesting … euro been more agressive with shear

Yeah when SPC goes 30% on D4 I don't think they are concerned with shear being much of a limiting factor. And if anything, shear has increased on runs today. CSU probs are already 45-59% 4 days out.
 
Yeah when SPC goes 30% on D4 I don't think they are concerned with shear being much of a limiting factor. And if anything, shear has increased on runs today. CSU probs are already 45-59% 4 days out.
SPC did mention this morning that the primary D4 risk would be large hail, followed by the potential for damaging winds. Tors were not mentioned.
 
18z 3k nam had a mid morning mcs moving east to west along the red river for tomorrow that ruins the environment and the the 0z has a mid morning mcs moving north to south across eastern Oklahoma that ruins the environment. Think it’s safe to toss that
 
What mortifies me is that storm motion is perfectly perpendicular to the dryline. Combined with incredible shear/hodographs and ridiculous instability, I think we'll see a significant tornado outbreak with a chance for a violent tornado.
I agree, and I really have no model support for this idea but I think we will trend towards initiating storms further south along the dryline as well.
 
What mortifies me is that storm motion is perfectly perpendicular to the dryline. Combined with incredible shear/hodographs and ridiculous instability, I think we'll see a significant tornado outbreak with a chance for a violent tornado.
And if Monday does pan out, then discrete supercells could latch on to leftover outflow boundaries, which could speed up tornadogenesis.
 
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