• MESO: Mesoscale Discussion 0025

    From COD Weather Processor@1:2320/105 to wx-storm@lists.illinois.edu on Thu Jan 9 18:27:54 2025
    ACUS11 KWNS 091827
    SWOMCD
    SPC MCD 091827=20
    OKZ000-TXZ000-092230-

    Mesoscale Discussion 0025
    NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
    1227 PM CST Thu Jan 09 2025

    Areas affected...Portions of the Texas Panhandle into northwest
    Oklahoma

    Concerning...Heavy snow=20

    Valid 091827Z - 092230Z

    SUMMARY...A nearly stationary band of heavy snow with rates around
    0.5-1 inch per hour (locally 1.5 inch) should persist across
    portions of the TX Panhandle into northwest OK for much of the
    afternoon.

    DISCUSSION...The latest radar data from KAMA depicts an increasingly
    organized band of moderate to locally heavy snow extending from the
    TX Panhandle into northwest OK. This organized band is likely being
    aided by a strengthening low/mid-level frontogenetic circulation
    ahead of the primary large-scale trough. Given the slow motion of
    the trough, and an embedded impulse tracking east-northeastward
    across the TX South Plains (evident in WV imagery), this band should
    remain persistent and nearly stationary through much of the
    afternoon. Steep midlevel lapse rates (sampled by earlier observed
    soundings) are likely supporting a convective enhancement to
    snowfall rates, and recent visible satellite imagery corroborates
    this as well. As a result, 0.5-1 inch per hour rates (locally 1.5
    inch) should persist under the core of the snow band before it
    becomes less organized.

    ..Weinman.. 01/09/2025

    ...Please see https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.spc.noaa.gov__;!!DZ3fj= g!92weTfGIdZfe-hJosbt3oa1w6VQ-tWPArJTqTT9KKCcYc4RCaPnV7Xe5l5pGaFq2d6e4siF74= KG1gaCgUp9VDNJrFpg$ for graphic product...

    ATTN...WFO...OUN...LUB...AMA...

    LAT...LON 35190283 35940131 36599959 36719919 36549901 36299911
    35909978 35110133 34480241 34730287 35190283=20


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