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Severe March 25-27th possible severe weather

Sure this verbatim would be a threat for the plains but this has to be watched, has support and there isn’t a big block around Newfoundland to change things up crazily this time, even with a weaker trough on the euro wind energy is still pretty high, supportive of supercells, maybe this threat can vanish aswell but this one I have more confidence in happening as like I said there isn’t much of a block/confluence from around Newfoundland interfering
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H5 looks ripe for severe WX with this look in the plains, GFS has a cuttoff Low/ULL, positivity tilted, while the FV3 has a more broad positively tilted trough, this is probably why sfc dews is lacking a bit on these models as a negatively tilted trough often pulls in much better sfc moisture leading to a better chance for tornadoes vs a positively tilted trough, some models try to eliminate instability as the low progresses west
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And for fun the gfs has a really nasty setup at the end of its run, thank goodness it’s the 384 hour gfs
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From the long range HRRR there looks to be pockets of SRH helicity around 300-350 in south alabama if one of these low topped supercells form and gets in with that there may be a spin up tornado or two. But overall wind fields dont look too impressive.
 
Needa watch for a slim chance of a spin up tornado tommorow, otherwise probably more of a organized Multicell cluster/s looks more likely, Dominant threat is a Gusty/damaging wind threat due to dry air entrainment at mid levels and some weak wind energy aloft translating to the surface, also small hail due to low freezing levels/low wet bulb levels and dry air aloft along with a little bit of CAPE in the HGZ 6CB69EF7-0F11-42EC-9249-A102C790FB98.png
 
Screenshot_20190324-152211_Samsung Internet.jpgFrom the 18z HRRR id say a slight risk will probably run from atlanta to southern mississippi into south alabama by the look of things. HRRR is putting around 1500 surface cape in places. Have to watch for any outflow boundaries from the mcs which might aid in wind shear.
 
So if the tornado chances were somewhat accurate from the HRRRE some time back, then maybe this could test the hail chance of the same model. Seems reasonable though S MS looks to be more in on the action on the actual HRRR.
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FFC says 2+ inch hail possible in west-central GA and metro Atlanta tomorrow.
Yep. Not a good tone in terms of hail.
Latest guidance still indicate that strong to severe hail event
on tap for Monday late afternoon and evening. As mentioned
previously, steep lapse rates with MLCAPE approaching 1000 J/kg
and strong deep vertical wind shear all coming together, best
combination of shear and instability over westcentral GA and ATL
metro areas. Hail up to or even larger than 2 inches expected.

Can`t rule out some brief quasi-linear storms and multicells, but
expecting to see mostly cells and supercells with weak rotation.
A little concerned that 12Z HREF (high res ensemble forecast from
SPC) shows some decent updraft helicity potential in and near ATL
metro 21Z-00Z. Can`t rule out brief/weak tornado in spite of very
weak low level vertical wind shear. Storms should move out and/or
dissipate by 10PM.
 
Oh shii just saw this sounding out of MS, perfect sounding for hail, decently large HGZ, dry air aloft helping to prevent melting, steep low/mid level lapse rates, low wet bulb. Also a nice sounding for damaging winds with increased DCAPE, dry air entrainment AE77E144-4EE7-48D0-8CF9-102E36D9662B.png
 
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The mcs early in the morning will play a role in this. If a outflow boundary comes from this and sets somewhere in central or south alabama, won't be good.
 
Here a easier sounding breakdown if you want to know more about large hail and the environment it requires, also one in the learning thread, just trying to help out, but dang that’s some decent CAPE in the hail growth region ! Maybe some #gorillahail ?CB263DE8-2C89-4E2D-A77E-9957BB5E38E9.jpeg
 
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