• MESO: Mesoscale Discussion 0726

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    ACUS11 KWNS 062301
    SWOMCD
    SPC MCD 062301=20
    LAZ000-MSZ000-ARZ000-TXZ000-070100-

    Mesoscale Discussion 0726
    NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
    0601 PM CDT Tue May 06 2025

    Areas affected...much of srn/ern LA...wrn MS

    Concerning...Tornado Watch 234...235...

    Valid 062301Z - 070100Z

    The severe weather threat for Tornado Watch 234, 235 continues.

    SUMMARY...The more discrete storms may occasionally intensify and
    pose a risk for a tornado through 7-9 PM CDT. Otherwise, storms may
    tend to slowly consolidate into another organizing but slow moving
    cluster, accompanied by a risk for locally damaging wind gusts
    and/or brief tornadoes while spreading eastward across the lower
    Mississippi Valley.

    DISCUSSION...A meso-beta scale cyclonic circulation continues slowly
    eastward across north central Louisiana, with a compact but vigorous
    arcing band of convection being maintained to its immediate
    southeast through south. This has evolved along a weak near-surface
    baroclinic zone slowly retreating northward through the lower
    Mississippi Valley. 21-22Z surface observations have indicated the
    continuing presence of a notable 2-hourly surface fall/rise couplet
    (in excess of 2 mb) in association with this perturbation, though
    little in the way strong surface gusts have been observed.

    Along and south of the frontal zone, there has been a substantive
    increase in thunderstorm development, some of which has or could
    still become rooted within a seasonably moist boundary-layer
    characterized by lower 70s F surface dew points and CAPE on the
    order of 2000 J/kg. Thunderstorm initiation has likely been
    supported by large-scale forcing for ascent associated with broad lower/mid-tropospheric warm advection, beneath strongly difluent
    upper flow which will only very slowly continue to overspread the
    lower Mississippi Valley through mid/late evening.=20

    As long as discrete thunderstorm development persists, there will be
    potential for occasional intensification, as these cells become
    rooted within the boundary-layer, in the presence of sizable
    clockwise-curved low-level hodographs conditionally supportive of
    strong tornadoes. However, within time, models suggest that the
    southerly 850 mb may begin to weaken, and consolidating convection
    may tend to grow upscale into organized but slow moving convective
    system.

    ..Kerr.. 05/06/2025

    ...Please see https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.spc.noaa.gov__;!!DZ3fj= g!9y_pkgs9hcQCr9W1ezaQqjLN7viI4cN0OjfSdORtk0LWW8pRlIyVAcdH1-kox9S5Tfz6gKujb= FASK_fh3pHrtoJvITI$ for graphic product...

    ATTN...WFO...JAN...LIX...LCH...SHV...

    LAT...LON 31039410 31689319 32189265 32629203 33089111 32398983
    31038984 29559026 29659157 29779296 29759398 30419446
    31039410=20

    MOST PROBABLE PEAK TORNADO INTENSITY...100-130 MPH
    MOST PROBABLE PEAK WIND GUST...55-70 MPH
    MOST PROBABLE PEAK HAIL SIZE...1.50-2.50 IN


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