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  1. 1 minute ago, MattPetrulli said:

    Definitely something to watch as HRRR kinda hints at the same idea but is more bullish. I'm pretty curious to learn more about why they are showing what looks like discrete cells but aren't producing these big UH tracks.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t this the case with the model ahead of the 4/12 outbreak last year? It showed widespread OWS convection doing this too.

  2. New outlook from the SPC overnight raised probabilities to 30% in the Day 4 outlook on Wednesday across most of Mississippi and Alabama. Their confidence is quite high at this range regarding the potential for a major severe weather event: 

     

    On Wednesday, convection will likely be ongoing across the eastern
       Texas/Arkansas/Louisiana areas, with some severe risk possible
       during the morning hours.  By afternoon, an increase in coverage and
       intensity is expected as closed upper system shifts out of the
       Plains toward the Mississippi Valley.  With a rather
       large/destabilizing warm sector and ample shear across a broad
       region, a rather large 15% area will be maintained, representative
       of an all-hazards severe risk.  Corridors of greater risk --
       including possibly more concentrated tornado potential -- may evolve
       during the afternoon, possibly near the northward-moving warm front.
        While the ECMWF is farther south with this west-to-east front
       (central MS/AL) during the afternoon than the GFS (southern TN),
       will nonetheless introduce a 30% risk area -- encompassing a range
       of possible warm-frontal locations -- given likelihood for
       widespread severe weather that warrants greater probability at this
       time.  ”
  3. Hi all, 

    Thought that I would get a thread going for this coming Wednesday.
     

    Models are starting to show a potentially volatile scenario across Mississippi and Alabama. The SPC just issued a broad 15% risk area in their day 5 outlook and mentioned that greater probabilities may be needed in later outlooks. James Spann is also bringing attention to this set-up, mentioning that a significant severe weather event with violent tornadoes is possible in his latest write-up about Wednesday. https://www.alabamawx.com/?p=224731

  4. This is the most prolific long-tracking supercell I can recall in a LONG time. Closest analog I can think off the top of my head in the past couple of years was the Carbondale EF-4 supercell in 2017. 
     

    I missed most of the action earlier because of work, so thanks for these threads everyone. This has been a crazy day. 

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  5. 24 minutes ago, jojo762 said:

    Pretty black and white to me here.

    The Bad (more likely)

    Morning MCS limits any potential threat substantially, owing to meh instability... But so could veered low-levels, or both. Probably both.

    Likewise, if the morning MCS is limited in scope or southern extent... Then things could get pretty crazy, but again, probably not. Though a strong tornado could occur with some rogue storm, like we saw on Sunday (4/19).

    The Good (wish-casting/not as likely)

    The low-levels are not as veered as currently modeled (aka, the 00z NAM from last night or the 12z UKMET)... AND the MCS is more lackluster than currently modeled by 12z CAMs... The result is likely tornado galore across several states, yet again...

     

    Pretty bearish about Thursday... But even if the MCS diminishes the threat spatially -- as it looks like all of us expect at this point -- it is important to remember that weird, less-than-ideal profiles (especially compared to what you think of as a "classic," plains tornado VWP) can still produce isolated sigtors in Dixie.

    Probably going to get quoted a million times for raining on the train... but oh well.

    Doesn’t seem like anyone has been bullish on this set-up after the past few model runs. Too many failure modes evident to get very excited about this. 

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