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TDFW high-resolution radar near McKinney

Isn't there somebody on this board from Richardson, a couple miles away from this tornado warning?

Next week: (April 14-15) I wonder if we could get a severe weather outbreak in the central-southern Plains and a blizzard in the northern Plains on the same day. Today's GFS has a low pressure of 972 mb next Friday.

SPC day-3 (Friday) outlook includes northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas. Tonight's 3km NAM shows this impressive sounding near Texarkana, AR. This is some nifty eye-candy. It is In the warm sector, before scattered storms develop in Oklahoma/Arkansas. The only weakness here would be winds that are weaker at 300mb-250mb, compared to 500mb.

This is the new graph, with the new value for April at about 5.99 tornadoes/day. This is very close to the value from UStornadoes.com web site, which is 5.93 tornadoes/day, if you just divide their number by 30. Also, their value for June is 7.6 tornadoes/day, vs. my calculation at 6.8 tornadoes/day. So that is a kind of interesting deviation from the long-term dataset.

For this data, I have looked at 2010-2017, 8-year climatology of severe weather reports per day. All numbers come from http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/newm.html March tornadoes have been relatively low in this 8-year time period, compared to April. This is probably due to weak severe weather setups in March, over a period of years. -- Edit: a longer-term climatology of tornadoes/month is posted here: http://www.ustornadoes.com/2016/04/06/annual-and-monthly-tornado-averages-across-the-united-states/ --

A little Easter freezing rain at Kansas City (yes, it is FZRA at KC International Airport.) Gee, cut us some slack, it's Spring. Let's not have freezing rain.

The last time we saw a decent amount of severe weather was March 19th and 20th. Considering prospects for tornadoes are not too high over the next few days, this means we have gone through another dorky March with respect to severe weather. Not that I want anyone to have damage/fatalities from these things, it's just that cool weather patterns prevailed in March 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2018 for sure.

There seem to be even more tornado warnings, even into the nighttime. Here's a confirmed tornado -- ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY... At 830 PM CDT, a confirmed tornado was located near Jacksonville State University, or near Jacksonville, moving east at 40 mph. HAZARD...Damaging tornado. SOURCE...Radar confirmed tornado.

Not sure if we are talking about the same thing, but the area near the HTX radar is now tornado warned (8 mi west of radar). Interestingly, google maps shows terrain with 800 ft vertical differences there.

The models show that DFW metro area will be near a surface warm front, with dryline existing at some point in central Texas tomorrow. SBCAPE values are forecast to be over 2000 J/kg south of the warm front. It is possible that severe storms will form near the warm front. The SPC could upgrade this area to a limited-area slight risk or keep it at a marginal risk.

I was searching around on Youtube and I found a very good lecture series about tornado forecasting done by Rich Thompson of the SPC. Hopefully this link will take you to the whole playlist, including 9 lectures.

SPC has a day-3 slight risk outlook for Arkansas/Tennessee

The GFS is usually not this crazy about freezing rain accumulation, but the NWS doesn't appear to be overly concerned, with just a winter weather advisory. What's the deal?

Freezing rain in Kansas City metro

There is a plot of snowiest month of the year (climatological) done by climatologist Brian Brettschneider on this page. Scroll towards the bottom of the page. http://us-climate.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-10-11T23:33:00-07:00&max-results=10&start=40&by-date=false

This beats any hailstone in the USA

If you take the general ideas of the 06z/12z GFS, you might start to expect a 0.05" to 0.25" freezing rain for southwest Missouri. So, that's not crazy (as the Euro shows?) but may be quite dangerous for vehicles anyway.

I'm surprised we haven't had any people post directly from Houston. Didn't we have some members there? Houston: 27 degrees with -FZRAPL and with 15 kt winds. Yikes!

Rain changed to freezing rain and then snow at Longview (center of this image)

It's almost like these deformation banding features wish to be lake effect bands. Wind gusts to 36kt at Cleveland Lakefront.

Ravenna ASOS says +RA and 30 degrees. Oops, I guess that's +FZRA (maybe?), Akron City has snow, Euclid KCGF has freezing rain, Cleveland Lakefront has -RA and below freezing.

For now, this web site still works https://weather.us/model-charts/euro

In Torreon Mexico, a desert area, it snowed at 34 degrees this morning. METAR: MMTC 081040Z 35004KT 1SM -SN OVC005 01/00 A3027 RMK 8/7// RTS

JTWC forecast calls for Tropical Storm Saola to become a borderline 65 kt Category 1 cyclone southwest of Tokyo and then miss Tokyo by a little bit. The GFS and Euro later have this cyclone merging with baroclinic energy to create **another** huge low pressure near the Kamchatka Peninsula. Perhaps so much energy in the Pacific will send some more interesting downstream troughs and ridges our way.