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Severe Weather Threat - May 6, 2024

From OUN: A Tale of Two Hodographs: For whatever reason today, the environment just ahead of the dryline (currently shown on the FDR VAD) has shown a tendency toward veered near-surface winds, which is leading to a much less-favorable hodograph structure than further east in the warm sector (shown on the TLX VAD). This has likely tempered our tornado risk closer to the dryline throughout the day and explains why some of the more impactful tornadic circulations occurred well into the warm sector (what we saw in Garfield County, the tornado in WFO Tulsa's area a bit ago).
 
Why are the probabilities lower on this latest tornado watch if this is supposed to be the main event?
If you're talking about the very recent tornado watch for east/southeast Oklahoma into northwest Arkansas, that's because the watch is off to the east of the HIGH/MDT Risk areas and east of the higher threat zone for the higher-end tornado risk.
 
Impressive structure. Storms along this line have been well-behaved for the last hour or two due to some cool air, but yeah, that could probably use a TOR.
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Mountain View storm already has echo tops of 49kft. Wow.

It is starting to organize better and get a little bit of rotation started. Obviously, SVR warned as well now.
 
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