Dangerous Severe Weather Outbreak Possible Today-Tonight In SE NM & W TX!



Enhanced Severe Weather Threat Today Into Tonight.





Day 1 Convective Outlook 
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   0757 AM CDT Tue Mar 12 2019

   Valid 121300Z - 131200Z

   ...THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF
   SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST-CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

   ...SUMMARY...
   Thunderstorms should produce large hail, damaging wind and a few
   tornadoes this afternoon over parts of southeastern New Mexico and
   far west Texas.  The threat will transition mostly to severe wind as
   a complex of storms crosses west-central Texas tonight.


   ...Synopsis...
   A progressive and rather highly amplified pattern will characterize
   the mid/upper levels over the CONUS.  A strong shortwave trough --
   now apparent in moisture-channel imagery near the coastal Pacific
   Northwest -- is forecast to dig southeastward over the western Great
   Basin and Sierra Nevada to the LAS/IGM region through the period.
   As this occurs, the initially slow-moving, well-defined, synoptic-
   scale cyclone centered over northern Baja is forecast to accelerate
   east-northeastward to northeastward.  The associated 500-mb low
   should reach the RTN/CAO area of northeastern NM by 12Z, with trough
   extending down the TX/NM border and across the lower Pecos River to
   the Big Bend region and north-central MX.

   The cyclone aloft will be flanked by anomalously intense winds at
   all levels, especially in its eastern semicircle this period.  That
   should including a 130-145-kt 250-mb jet with difluent flow
   spreading across the outlook area from late afternoon through
   evening.  500-mb flow over parts of this the region should
   strengthen to over 100 kt between 00-06Z, while a 60-75-kt southerly
   LLJ and associated strong moisture-transport/warm-advection regime
   develop from south-central TX and the Hill Country to central OK.

   At the surface, 11Z analysis showed a wavy/quasistationary frontal
   zone across the LA shelf waters to the middle TX coast, to near COT
   and across northern Coahuila, becoming diffuse near the Rio Grande
   between the Big Bend and ELP.  Remnants of this front will shift
   northward across west TX through the period, while lee troughing/
   cyclogenesis will intensify in response to the approaching cyclone
   aloft.  The associated surface low will form and deepen considerably
   over northeastern CO through the period before deepening much
   further and ejecting across western KS day-2.

   ...Eastern NM and west TX...
   Surface-based thunderstorms are expected to develop initially in
   mid/late afternoon in a broken arc from central/northwestern NM
   (where instability will be weak) to higher terrain from south-
   central/southeastern NM in far west TX (Guadalupe/Davis/Chisos
   Mountains and vicinity).  Initially some of this activity should be
   discrete, yielding fast-moving supercells, some leftward/
   anticyclonic, with large hail.  Potentially significant and
   destructive hail over 2 inches in diameter is possible over the
   newly outlined area, given the strong shear, early supercell modes,
   steep low/middle-level lapse rates, and favorable inflow-layer water
   content.  A few tornadoes also are possible, along with severe
   gusts.
 

   Steepening midlevel lapse rates and moistening boundary layers,
   warmed both by warm advection and muted diabatic heating, will
   remove MLCINH and yield surface-based inflow parcels with MLCAPE
   500-1000 J/kg in central NM, and 1000-2000 J/kg over southeastern NM
   down the Pecos Valley.  Strengthening winds aloft (as noted above)
   will yield effective-shear magnitudes 55-75 kt across that corridor.
    Meanwhile, veering flow with height should contribute to 200-400
   J/kg effective SRH, locally higher.

   With time this evening, a well-organized squall line is expected to
   form, overtaking remaining supercells as it sweeps eastward and
   lengthens across extreme eastern NM and west TX.  Embedded
   supercells and bow/LEWP formations are probable.  The dominant
   threat in that mode will become severe wind, with a few brief QLCS
   tornadoes possible as activity moves into a marginally unstable but
   high-SRH boundary layer near the western rim of the LLJ. 
The
   complex should persist across the Edwards Plateau and Hill Country,
   with at least marginal/conditional wind threat as far east as near
   the I-35 urban corridor from the Metroplex to SAT late overnight.

   Given the strength of the ambient flow, favorable storm-relative
   flow in low levels, potential forced ascent of increasingly moist
   boundary layer, and possibility of intense rear-inflow jet formation
   in such a complex, significant-severe (hurricane-force) gusts cannot
   be ruled out over some of southeastern NM and west TX.
  However,
   confidence is not as strong yet on that outcome as with the
   significant hail earlier, due to concerns over weakness of low-level
   lapse rates and 0-3-km CAPE with eastward extent after dark.  Such a
   risk area may be needed in future updates.

   ..Edwards/Mosier.. 03/12/2019

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