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SPC AC 210848

DAY 4-8 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0348 AM CDT TUE MAY 21 2013

VALID 241200Z - 291200Z

...DISCUSSION...
MEDIUM-RANGE MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT THROUGH ROUGHLY DAY 6 /SUN.
12-26/...IN TERMS OF THE LARGE-SCALE PATTERN.

DAY 4 /FRI. 12-24/...BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF SHOW THE ERN U.S. TROUGH
CONTINUING TO PROGRESS...WITH THE SURFACE COLD FRONT MOVING OFFSHORE
EARLY IN THE PERIOD -- SUGGESTING ONLY LOW-END SEVERE THREAT AT BEST
PRIOR TO THE FRONT VACATING THE COAST.

MEANWHILE...A STRONG RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL U.S. IS PROGGED TO
PERSIST...HINDERING EWD PROGRESSION OF THE WRN U.S. TROUGH.  MODELS
AGREE OVERALL -- BUT DIFFER WITH DETAILS -- THAT THE RIDGE WILL
DEAMPLIFY/FLATTEN WITH TIME...AS SHORT-WAVE TROUGHS EJECT EWD FROM
THE MAIN WRN SYSTEM INTO THE MEAN RIDGING.  WHILE THE DECREASE IN
RIDGING -- AND THUS LARGE-SCALE SUBSIDENCE -- WITH TIME COMBINED
WITH THE PASSAGE OF REPEATED VORTICITY MAXIMA WOULD RESULT IN SOME
SEVERE POTENTIAL LOCALLY...TIMING/LOCATION WOULD BE QUITE DIFFICULT
TO NARROW DOWN ATTM.  EVEN SO...WITH NO WIDESPREAD/SIGNIFICANT
THREATS EVIDENT ATTM -- BUT MORE LIKELY SMALLER-SCALE/LOCAL
POTENTIAL...NO OUTLOOK AREAS WILL BE ISSUED THIS FORECAST.

..GOSS.. 05/21/2013
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