Monday, April 24, 2006

FCST: Monday 4/24

While things are not perfect for sig tors today, I think we may get an isolated one. Finally, we have some good juice in place with mid 60s dewpoints. In addition, we have stellar mid level lapse rates of 8.5 C/km or so which goes along with my saying, "lapse rates over 8.0, tornadoes will be great". There will be many storms today, along cold front, old outflow boundaries, etc. A good strategy for today is to find the low level shear maximum and hope storms move into that environment. I'm planning on departing Norman around 11-12, heading N into the END-ICT vicinity...where surface winds will hopefully remain backed due to morning convection. Will have the chase cam up! Good luck.