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Tracking a Significant Spring Storm Impacting the Central U.S. This Week

A significant storm will track across the central U.S. and into the Great Lakes through Thursday. Heavy snow and blowing snow is expected from the northern Plains into the Upper Midwest. Further south, severe thunderstorms are expected from the southern Plains into the Midwest as well as a multi-day excessive rain and flooding event Wednesday through Saturday from the Ozarks into the Ohio Valley. Read More >

Mesoscale Discussion #0637 issued at 2241 UTC 27 April 2011
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0637
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0541 PM CDT WED APR 27 2011
   
AREAS AFFECTED...PARTS OF ERN AL...NRN/CENTRAL GA...AND WRN NC/SC
   
CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...TORNADO WATCH LIKELY 
   
VALID 272241Z - 272315Z
   
A NEW TORNADO WATCH IS BEING COORDINATED TO THE EAST OF WW/S 235 AND
238.  THIS NEW WATCH WILL LIKELY BE A PDS WATCH.
   
STRENGTHENING SLY LOW LEVEL WINDS /50-60 KT/ THIS EVENING ACROSS ERN
AL INTO CENTRAL/NRN GA TO WRN PARTS OF SC/NC WILL MAINTAIN A MOIST
AIR MASS /SURFACE DEWPOINTS RISING INTO THE MID 60S/ AND SUPPORTING
MLCAPE 1000-2000 J/KG.  THIS COMBINED WITH INCREASING SWLY MIDLEVEL
WINDS ATOP THE LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL SUPPORT STRONG EFFECTIVE BULK
SHEAR /50-70 KT/ FOR DISCRETE SUPERCELLS AS ACTIVITY NOW LOCATED
OVER AL AND ERN TN DEVELOPS DOWNSTREAM.
   
..PETERS.. 04/27/2011
   
   
ATTN...WFO...RNK...CAE...GSP...MRX...FFC...TAE...BMX...MOB...
   
LAT...LON   32358642 35008451 36218196 35998051 33778216 32098310
            31598390 31608645 32358642