Severe Storms Today on the Southern High Plains 🌩️
A marginal risk across the Southern High Plains in December? Yep.
It’s not often you get a marginal risk across the Southern High Plains this time of year, but that’s precisely where we are today. There is a very low chance of all severe hazards today, including tornadoes. Let’s dive in
What: Strongly forced linear segments in a weak instability environment. Hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes are possible.
Where: Southern High Plains
When: Starting this afternoon and lasting into the night.
Discussion: What a perfectly unique setup today! I almost wished I was driving to see family today because there’d be some storm chasing in the Texas Panhandle!
Storms will initially form near an upper system across New Mexico. As they encounter an increasingly moist and unstable airmass to the east, they’ll become a linear complex of storms, with some severe.
The temperatures at the surface this morning are cool, but the moist airmass should result in weak instability with very cold temperatures aloft moving in. Combined with strong wind shear, that should be enough to get a thin/narrow line of storms to push through.
As the atmosphere cools with sunset, storms should remain mostly below severe levels as they move further east — but storms should go throughout the night into the main bodies of Texas and Oklahoma.
I wish the Titans were chasing today, would love to see a QLCS with spin-ups for Christmas
Happy Holidays Titans
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