News DetailSevere Weather Event this Thursday!
Posted At: October 24, 2006 @ 10:15 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: Tornadoes
An intense upper storm system will sweep across the Southern Plains on Thursday, pumping tropical moisture northward from the Gulf of Mexico and enhancing the low-level shear in the warm sector. This event appears to be a textbook bulging dry line setup, with 2000+ J/kg CAPE and nicely backed surface winds over eastern OK by Thursday afternoon (as forecast by the 00z WRF Tuesday night). If this forecast verifies, we will definitely be chasing this event Thursday, so stay tuned to the live tracker. Shown below are the forecast CAPE and 500 mb flow for Wednesday evening.
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This also appears to be a textbook wind, and high fire danger event for the folks back in Norman taking afternoon tests.
You can catch a flight after your exam to Denver and document a heavy snow event.
We might kill two birds with one stone.
SPC also seems pretty high on it per their new Day 2 outlook.