Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Tulsa, OK
Issued by NWS Tulsa, OK
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306 FXUS64 KTSA 061120 AFDTSA Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Tulsa OK 620 AM CDT Mon May 6 2024 ...New AVIATION... .SHORT TERM... (Today) Issued at 340 AM CDT Mon May 6 2024 ...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED TODAY.... Latest data continue to support the likelihood for significant severe weather across portions of eastern OK today. It is a day to remain weather aware and have trusted weather sources for your information. Amplified trough is currently aligned through the Intermountain West while rapid moisture return is underway downstream across the southern Plains. 00z upper air data sampled extremes within both the wind field associated with the trough and the source region of moisture return. Additionally, low level vapor imagery reveal the EML spreading east across the west TX and quickly replacing the more lackluster lapse rates downstream. The combination will yield a rapid expansion of instability across the warm sector by early afternoon while wind fields aloft steadily strengthen through the day. A complicating and more uncertain feature is the weak warm front aligned along the Red River valley its evolution through the day. A typical model bias across the local region is to suggest early day convection within these recovering airmass patterns, however today may be a more valid scenario. Any early afternoon storms will pose a severe risk and, should the coverage exceed forecasts, then a longer lived severe weather window will be realized. A much more certain storm evolution will be severe storms quickly developing across western OK by mid afternoon and spreading eastward through the evening and overnight hours. Deep layer shear orientation will favor cellular storms with the initial development and this more favorable orientation holds true through the overnight hours with southward extent. Further north a trend toward broken line segments appears probable by mid to late evening. This transition and varying storm mode appears likely to felt largely across the local forecast area impacting predominant hazards and warning configurations. Short term CAM ensemble guidance have good agreement on a notable strengthening of the low to mid level wind fields between 00z-06z firmly across the forecast area and, while the exact impacts are unknown, the likelihood for significant severe weather is expected to accompany this evolution. The southern extent of the severe storm coverage will be limited by the residual capping inversion in wake of the lifting upper wave. However, several CAM members show long track UH swaths on the southern periphery of the convection. Any established strong supercell will continue well into an otherwise strongly capped airmass and this scenario appears valid today given shear vector orientation. The risk of severe weather will continue through northwest Arkansas late tonight and significant severe potential may expand that far east though uncertainty is higher at this time. && .LONG TERM... (Tonight through Sunday) Issued at 340 AM CDT Mon May 6 2024 A brief lull in severe weather will occur Tuesday, however airmass recovery will be well underway ahead of the next upper wave and associated cold front. Intense low level jet develops Tuesday night with associated warm moist advection potentially igniting storms by early Wed morning across NE OK / NW AR. Should morning storms develop then a quick transition toward severe weather is likely given forecast soundings. Otherwise, the focus will be along the advancing cold front and early day convection appears likely as minimal capping is expected ahead of the front. While low level flow is more veered than the Monday event, the presence of strong instability and ample shear suggest higher end severe weather is likely. The focus for storms will steadily spread east of the forecast area by mid to late afternoon. And then a more prolonged break in the active pattern arrives. Dry weather and seasonal temperatures are expected for late week into the weekend with the next chance of precip early next week. && .AVIATION... (12Z TAFS) Issued at 1121 AM CDT Mon May 6 2024 Vsbys/cigs reduced to brief periods of IFR/VLIFR with in fog early in the valid period. VFR vsbys expected after 14z, and cigs will rise to VFR categories by early afternoon. Storms will impact the NE OK sites this evening with a period of IFR vsbys and MVFR cigs in +TSRA in the 02z-06z time frame. VFR elements are expected to prevail at those sites after 06z. Further south and east, timing and duration of convection is a bit more uncertain. Will include a prob30 group at KMLC from 04-09z, and tempo groups at the NW AR sites from 04z-08z(05z-09z KFSM), with MVFR cigs to prevail through the remainder of the period at all AR sites. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TUL 81 60 84 63 / 20 80 0 20 FSM 82 68 87 65 / 20 80 0 10 MLC 81 65 86 66 / 20 50 0 10 BVO 79 54 83 57 / 20 90 0 20 FYV 80 63 82 62 / 20 80 10 20 BYV 80 63 82 62 / 20 80 10 20 MKO 80 62 83 63 / 20 70 0 10 MIO 80 59 81 60 / 20 90 0 20 F10 80 60 84 64 / 20 70 0 10 HHW 81 68 85 68 / 20 40 0 10 && .TSA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...Dense Fog Advisory until 8 AM CDT this morning for OKZ049-053- 055>058-060>063-066>076. AR...Dense Fog Advisory until 8 AM CDT this morning for ARZ001-002- 010-011-019-020-029. && $$ SHORT TERM...07 LONG TERM....07 AVIATION...23