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4/11/20 - 4/13/20 Severe Weather Outbreak

Big pause, been noticing with soundings now that theres wayyy more EML advection, this may help or hurt, may keep supercells isolated, or may just keep a line of convection wth barely anything out ahead

Yeah that's how it goes EMLs. I've been saved by them before and saw nothing but a few showers and some thunder but at the same time when a cap breaks, sh*t gets real in a hurry.
 
Curious on everyone's thoughts here on this. Some mets have said the majority of severe storms will be relegated to the Ohio/TN valley and west of the Apps. JB said it would extend eastward into the Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic. How do you see it playing out?
 
Big pause, been noticing with soundings now that theres wayyy more EML advection, this may help or hurt, may keep supercells isolated, or may just keep a line of convection wth barely anything out ahead

Kind of a double-edged sword there.

A better EML would lend itself to better instability, which would aid in the intensity of the storms that do develop.
 
Big pause, been noticing with soundings now that theres wayyy more EML advection, this may help or hurt, may keep supercells isolated, or may just keep a line of convection wth barely anything out ahead

I think you almost have to have an EML here to get really any shot of discrete convection. Not only to keep junk convection/showers down, but really need to improve low level lapse rates with this much shear.
 
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ICON continues to trend less severe and even less rainy for most. Not a model of choice tho but others were discussing it when it was extreme.
 
Soundings in NC/SC, the most cape the euro run has had up in NC/SC, you gotta give euro some credit it’s held with this for days, classic HSLC soundings FD5DB863-1982-42E6-A0FF-039E159B2504.pngF5C4FE1C-437F-43F6-BF02-9528B6EB8149.png62FCE3B9-396F-45F6-8F6B-40F20126D278.png
 
This is starting to look very scary. I only hope the severe threat decreases here as we get closer to Monday since we have a few more days. But I recall the April 16, 2011 outbreak was forecasted a few days out, too.
 
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