ACUS02 KWNS 240600
SWODY2
SPC AC 240559
Day 2 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1159 PM CST Mon Jan 23 2023
Valid 251200Z - 261200Z
...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY INTO
WEDNESDAY EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA...NORTHERN FLORIDA...SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA...
...SUMMARY...
A risk for damaging winds and a few tornadoes will accompany showers
and thunderstorms overspreading much of the southern Atlantic Coast
states Wednesday into Wednesday evening.
...Synopsis...
While a mid-level subtropical high maintains strength across the Caribbean/Bahamas vicinity, a deep mid-level low of Arctic origins
may continue to redevelop southwestward toward the Hudson Bay
vicinity during this period, as a vigorous short wave impulse digs
around its western through southern periphery. At the same time,
within persistent large-scale eastern Pacific riding, another
prominent mid-level high is forecast to form, at higher latitudes
than the preceding one, to the west of the northern U.S. Pacific
coast. Downstream of this regime, a couple of digging impulses will
maintain mid-level troughing across the Four Corners states, while a
much more vigorous perturbation, initially over the Mid South
vicinity, continues accelerating east-northeastward.
As the lead perturbation approaches the lower Great Lakes/Mid
Atlantic Wednesday through Wednesday night, it may gradually become
absorbed within larger-scale troughing evolving to the south of the
Arctic low. An initial associated surface cyclone is forecast to
continue to deepen across the upper Ohio Valley into lower Great
Lakes, while secondary cyclogenesis commences from the lee of the
southern Appalachians through the northern Mid Atlantic and southern
New England coasts by 12Z Thursday. It still appears that there
will be coinciding substantive further intensification of a
west-southwesterly mid/upper jet, including speeds of 100-120 kt
around 500 mb, across the eastern Gulf through southern/middle
Atlantic Coast states and southern New England. A 50-70+ kt south-southwesterly jet around 850 mb likely will shift through
Georgia and the Carolinas through midday Wednesday, before continue
to propagate across the middle and northern Atlantic coast through
the remainder of the period.
...South Atlantic Seaboard...
Within the evolving warm sector of the cyclone, it appears that
boundary-layer moisture characterized by dew points in excess of 60F
will overspread much of the southern through middle Atlantic
Seaboard, in the presence of the intense deep-layer mean wind fields
and vertical shear. It still appears that lower/mid-tropospheric
lapse rates will remain generally weak. However, aided by an
initially better influx of moisture return off the Gulf of Mexico, a pre-frontal squall line (expected to be ongoing early Wednesday) may
maintain a risk for damaging winds and tornadoes across at least
southeastern Alabama, central/southern Georgia, and the remainder of
the Florida Panhandle into parts of northern Florida.
Thereafter, perhaps after a period of diminishing convective trends,
increasing mid/upper forcing for ascent may support a gradual
intensification of convection in a pre-cold frontal band across
parts of the Carolina Piedmont into the southern Mid Atlantic coast.
It is not entirely clear how much of this activity will be capable
of producing lightning due to relatively warm mid-levels. However,
a number of models are now increasingly suggestive that initially
stable near-surface lapse rates may trend neutral to weakly unstable
prior to the arrival of this activity. Given the size of the
forecast low-level hodographs, including modest clockwise curvature
and mean speeds in excess of 50 kt in the lowest couple of
kilometers above ground level, the environment may become conducive
to damaging gusts reaching the surface, and a risk for tornadoes.
The potential for tornadoes could increase as the convection and
associated forcing for ascent encounter increasingly moist low-level
inflow off the Atlantic, which may support intensifying convection,
including supercells, across the North Carolina coast/Outer Banks
region Wednesday evening.
..Kerr.. 01/24/2023
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