Departing Friday morning and probably chasing northeast/eastern NM on Saturday then some better days to follow across the plains. We'll see how the models shake out
Leaving on CoD's trip 2 next Friday..
12z op GFS run looks like it came around to the GEFS members idea the last several runs of a good trof signal by next weekend and the week beginning 5/16 along with a good EML being able to come out with an open Gulf.
We will see how things shake out but I'm fairly optimistic
Yeah the 12z Euro looks pretty nasty on Tuesday from srn KS to the Red River, dryline stays west of I-35 with 55kt flow at H5, upper 60 dews and 3,000-4,000 J/kg.
My second trip leaves Friday and after a little break of model watching, I finally looked this morning..
The 0z Euro and 6z GFS have me cautiously optimistic for some good chances across the nrn plains beginning as early as Monday possibly but hopefully getting even better just after that.
Yep Victor and I have been loving Tueday down there. Anytime you get 60 dews in NM with solid shear, look out.
We each have seen tornadoes on 5/19 in three different years
The 0z Euro itself for Saturday does look pretty ominous even though it has the morning round convection, destabilizes behind into across north TX into western/sw OK with 4000 j/kg and dew points in the low 70's as that jet comes across.
Our trip is probably going to leave very early Friday morning if something like the NAM ends up verifying for that afternoon/evening.
Yeah it really does look great beginning around 5/16 or a day after.
The agreement continues to improve too. Loop the 0z GFS ensemble spaghetti plots on our CoD site. Good agreement right through day 9.
The best thing is you get a good EML going during that period and the GOM just floods open as you keep reloading the west.
Really impressive op GFS run tonight in la la land FWIW from about 5/17-5/21 and would continue after that. Finally a run which has been hinted at from ensembles.