Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Omaha, NE

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
310 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2001

FORECAST CONCERN CONTS TO BE CONVECTIVE THREAT AND POTENTIAL OF
HEAVY RAINS THRU THU.

SHORT TERM...18Z OAX SOUNDING SHOWD MSTR WAS VERY SHALLOW SO DESPITE
SFC DWPTS AROUND 60/LOWER 60S...USING MEAN LYR YIELDED A VERY SMALL
CAPE...A LTL OVR 100 J/KG.  MSTR WAS DEEPER AT TOP...CU WAS ALSO
STARTING TO SHOW UP OVR ERN KS/WRN MO...AND THIS MSTR SHOULD CONT TO
BE TRANSPORTED N.  THIS SHOULD HELP WKN CAP ALNG WK CDFNT WHICH AT
20A WAS APPROACHING A YKN-ODX LINE.  QUESTIONS WERE HOW LONG AND HOW
FAR SW AND HOW WOULD PREFRONTAL TROF AFFECT THINGS AS IT HAS PUSHED
THRU NERN NEBR DROPPG DWPTS INTO UPR 40S.  DIURNAL BACKING OF SFC
WINDS THIS EVENING SHOULD ALLOW PREFRONTAL TROF TO WASH OUT...BUT
WOULD DELAY ONSET A LTL.  NEXT...ONCE CONVECTION GOT GOING...HOW FAR
S...IF AT ALL...WOULD IT PUSH FNT SWD.  STILL EVEN IF DEEPER MSTR
DOESNT MAKE IT TO FNT TIL LATE EVENING...THERE COULD STILL BE HIGH
BASED TSTMS DVLPG ALNG FNT LATE THIS AFTN EARLY THIS EVENING...AND
LATEST RUC NOW POINTS TO CNTRL NEBR.  12Z MODELS WERE CONSISTENT
WITH THEIR EARLIER RUNS...WHICH UNFORTUNATELY MEANT RTHR LARGE
DIFFERENCES IN FNTL PSN AND QPF.  MOST NOTABLE WAS QPF DIFFERENCE
BTWN AVN AND ETA/NGM EVEN THO SFC FTRS FM AVN WERE SIMILAR TO NGM.
AVN CONTD TO HOLD FRONT UP TNGT AND KEEPS MOST OF THE AREA CAPPED
KEEPING PCPN N OF FCST AREA OVERNGT.  IF CONVECTION WOULD INDEED
DVLP INTO NERN NEBR AND PUSH FNT INTO THE ECNTRL ZONES...A
CONTINUING FEED OF BTR 850 MB DWPTS WOULD STILL GIVE A HEAVY RAIN
THREAT FOR PARTS OF THE AREA.  USING COMPROMISE BTWN AVN AND ETA
WILL KEEP POPS FAIRLY HIGH BUT WL NOT GO WITH A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
ATTM.  WL KEEP THE THREAT OF SVR IN FCST ALSO FOR MOST AREAS TNGT.
PREV FCST/GUID TEMPS SIMILAR AND LOOK GOOD.

FOR THU...EVEN FTHR S ETA BRINGS WRM WEDGE AT 850 MB INTO SERN NEBR
WITH TEMPS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF TDA.  RAISED HIGHS CNTRL/S TO GUID OR
A LTL WARMER.  ALL MODELS POINTED TO PSBL MORNING CONVECTION NERN
NEBR BFR FNT BECOMES MORE ACTIVE IN THE AFTN ACRS THE S.  SO UPPED
POPS N IN LINE WITH SRN ZONES...ALTHO STGEST SHOULD BE ACRS THE S
LATE AFTN INTO EVENING.  MCS THAT DVLPS THU NGT SHOULD PUSH FNT S OF
AREA BY EARLY FRI BUT WL CARRY SMALL POPS FRI AM.  WILL USE COMP IN
GUID TEMPS FOR HIGHS.

.OMA...NONE
CHERMOK

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1139 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 2001

STORM SPOTTERS WILL PROBABLY NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT
IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO EARLY
EVENING.  MOISTURE IS LIMITED AND SHEAR IS WEAK.  AN ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORM COULD BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.

THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH RAPIDLY EARLY THIS EVENING
AS A JET MAXIMUM MOVES PAST.

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