Subj : MESO: Mesoscale Discussion 1846 To : wx-storm@lists.illinois.edu From : COD Weather Processor Date : Wed Jul 30 2025 16:02:28 ACUS11 KWNS 301602 SWOMCD SPC MCD 301601=20 MEZ000-NHZ000-VTZ000-301900- Mesoscale Discussion 1846 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1101 AM CDT Wed Jul 30 2025 Areas affected...central Maine...portions of northern New Hampshire and Vermont Concerning...Severe potential...Watch unlikely=20 Valid 301601Z - 301900Z Probability of Watch Issuance...20 percent SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorm activity developing over the next few hours may increasingly pose a risk for small to marginally severe hail and localized potentially damaging wind gusts by 3-5 PM EDT. DISCUSSION...A corridor of stronger, but modest, destabilization is underway across parts of southeastern Ontario and adjacent Quebec through portions of central Maine. This is occurring in response to continuing insolation, beneath the southern periphery of a broad mid-level cold pool associated with upper troughing slowly digging across the eastern Canadian provinces. Forecast soundings suggest that relatively warm air associated with broad, increasingly suppressed, ridging further aloft may limit the magnitude of developing CAPE, but thermodynamic profiles may still be sufficiently cool and unstable in mid-levels to support a risk for small to marginally severe hail. Although low-level wind fields are rather modest, deep-layer shear associated with a westerly jet in mid/upper-levels is strong. Flow on the order of 30-50 kt appears as low as the 700-500 layer, contributing to mean flow around 25-30 kts in the lowest 6 km AGL.=20 This may gradually support modest east-southeast storm motions, and potential for locally strong to severe surface gusts, as low-level lapse rates continue to steepen and thunderstorm activity intensifies in peak afternoon destabilization. Deepening convective development is already underway off the higher terrain west of Houlton through northwest of Bangor, upstream into the upper St. Lawrence Valley. This likely will strengthen with the initiation of scattered thunderstorm activity during the next few hours. ...Kerr/Smith.. 07/30/2025 ....Please see https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.spc.noaa.gov__;!!DZ3fj= g!8YMOtLfESgxk15qCOFlR1XosYqR4RL-4T155SsI7umMb06_304StRKj1bpeJP98-k_OEcT6Ph= -ifAZZdDovN_lxLuOY$ for graphic product... ATTN...WFO...CAR...GYX...BTV... LAT...LON 45696719 44976870 44657152 44657252 45467339 45887244 46097044 46506854 46316779 45696719=20 MOST PROBABLE PEAK WIND GUST...55-70 MPH MOST PROBABLE PEAK HAIL SIZE...UP TO 1.25 IN =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 3.28-Linux * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .