Subj : MESO: Mesoscale Discussion 2133 To : wx-storm@lists.illinois.edu From : COD Weather Processor Date : Sun Sep 10 2023 20:14:35 ACUS11 KWNS 102014 SWOMCD SPC MCD 102013=20 OKZ000-KSZ000-TXZ000-COZ000-NMZ000-102245- Mesoscale Discussion 2133 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0313 PM CDT Sun Sep 10 2023 Areas affected...parts of northeastern New Mexico...southeastern Colorado...and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles into southwestern Kansas Concerning...Severe potential...Watch possible=20 Valid 102013Z - 102245Z Probability of Watch Issuance...60 percent SUMMARY...Isolated to widely scattered strong thunderstorm development is possible through 5-6 PM CDT. This may include an isolated supercell or two, posing a risk for severe hail, locally strong surface gusts and perhaps a brief tornado. DISCUSSION...Low-level moistening is still ongoing within weak, but slowly deepening surface troughing to the lee of the southern Rockies. This is occurring beneath warm and capping elevated mixed-layer, and mid-level ridging to the north of a still fairly prominent subtropical high centered over the northwestern Mexican Plateau. In response to a series of short wave perturbations progressing around the periphery of the ridge in the near term, and, later, digging mid-level troughing across the northern Great Plains, mid-level heights are gradually beginning to fall. It appears that large-scale forcing for ascent will lead to increasing convective development spreading off the Front Range into the destabilizing boundary layer across and east of northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado by early this evening. Potential for the initiation of sustained thunderstorm development in advance of this activity, through late afternoon, remains more unclear.=20=20 Based on objective analysis, mixed-layer CAPE remains fairly modest to the north of the Texas Panhandle vicinity, currently maximized around 1000 J/kg near the Colorado/Kansas border. However, shear for boundary-layer based thunderstorm development is sufficient for supercells beneath 30 kt west-northwesterly mid-level flow (around 500 mb). Farther south, mixed-layer CAPE is more substantive, but shear remains weaker. With additional surface heating, it appears possible that weakening of lingering mid-level inhibition may become sufficient for at least widely scattered thunderstorm development. A zone of enhanced lower/mid-tropospheric warm advection, currently centered to the west/northwest of Garden City KS, may provide one potential focus for thunderstorm initiation during the next hour or two. As this activity acquires increasing inflow of destabilizing boundary-layer, it may rapidly intensify and organize, accompanied by increasing potential for severe hail and perhaps some risk for a tornado through 22-23Z. ...Kerr/Guyer.. 09/10/2023 ....Please see https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.spc.noaa.gov__;!!DZ3fj= g!9bPRE8jCUIuRe0bU2gpkPdUwCswOIqumMgx77rzBUKFwgwnSfdUMF0zWgK_d88yQfnZk5tKiK= iJtQtUGgGT29gBNcj8$ for graphic product... ATTN...WFO...OUN...DDC...GLD...LUB...AMA...PUB...ABQ... LAT...LON 37350277 38420253 38800174 38540046 38029982 36909958 33770062 34030194 34280395 35780381 37350277=20 =3D =3D =3D To unsubscribe from WX-STORM and you already have a login, go to https://lists.illinois.edu and use the "Unsubscribe" link. Otherwise email Chris Novy at cnovy@cox.net and ask to be removed from WX-STORM. --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .