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ACUS03 KWNS 070723
SWODY3
SPC AC 070722

Day 3 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0222 AM CDT Sun Jun 07 2026

Valid 091200Z - 101200Z

...THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL
NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTH-CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...

...SUMMARY...
Scattered to numerous severe thunderstorms are expected to develop
across portions of the northern Plains into Upper Mississippi Valley
Tuesday afternoon into night. All severe-weather hazards are
possible. Isolated to widely scattered severe storms may also occur
across the central Plains, with a risk for large hail and damaging
winds.

...Synopsis...

A short-wave trough and attending mid/upper-level jet streaks over
the northern Rockies Tuesday morning will overspread the northern
Plains by afternoon. Farther upstream, a significant short-wave
trough will assume an increasing negative tilt while translating
into the northern High Plains early Tuesday morning. At the surface,
a cyclone linked with the lead short-wave trough will deepen while
developing from southeast MT into western ND by afternoon.
Meanwhile, an associated Pacific front will push east into the
western Dakotas, with more of a dryline structure evident from
southwest NE into the OK and TX Panhandles.


...Northern and Central Plains into Upper Mississippi Valley...

An active severe-weather period is anticipated Tuesday afternoon
into night, especially across the northern Plains, where all
severe-weather hazards are possible.

While the pre-frontal air mass over the western Dakotas is not
expected to be overly moist with dewpoints in the 50s to low 60s,
strong daytime heating and steep mid-level lapse rates will
contribute to moderate to strong instability by mid to late
afternoon. Some potential for early-day storms will exist in
northern ND, within a zone of persistent warm advection. Additional,
more intense thunderstorm activity is expected by mid afternoon from
the southern fringe of the early-day convection south along the
front as forcing for ascent increases with the approach of the
short-wave trough.

Vertically veering wind profiles with 40-50+ kt of deep-layer shear
will favor supercells capable of large to very large hail initially.
Some tornado threat could materialize during the evening hours as
LCL heights lower and the low-level shear increases. With time,
storms may grow upscale into clusters, with an increasing risk for
damaging winds spreading east through the Red River Valley.

Farther south, a number of models develop isolated to widely
scattered storms during the afternoon along the dryline in western
KS amidst a marginally sheared, but moderate to strongly unstable
environment. There is some signal that an MCS could evolve from that
activity across the mid to lower MO Valley Tuesday evening.  Only 5%
total-severe probabilities will be added in those areas, due to
uncertainty in that scenario.

..Mead.. 06/07/2026

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