SLIGHTLY HIGHER SEVERE WEATHER RISK TODAY… RZW Exec partners, good morning! This is a quick update to let you know that the severe weather risk across the entirety of our local area has increased slightly. The Storm Prediction Center continues to “up the ante” in terms of the severe weather potential. This won’t be a large, significant tornado outbreak or anything like that, BUT there could be multiple tornadoes today across our region. You can see in the map above that SPC has upped most of our local area into their Level 2 (out of 5) standard slight risk zone. This means that scattered severe storms will be possible, specifically isolated tornadoes and damaging wind gusts in the stronger storms. We’re already observing broadly rotating cells.
TIMING OF STORMS… 1PM to 9PM is the 8 hour window in which severe weather is MOST likely to happen. We could have tornado warnings before that, but that 8 hour window is when the greatest combination of “severe weather ingredients” (shear/CAPE) will be in place across the region.
PUBLIC UPDATES CONTINUE… It’s been quite a busy morning already with numerous updates being posted in the public-facing sections of the RedZone Weather app. I’m about to send out a Medium-Level Alert in the next hour detailing more about the risks today. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or decision support needs. Have a good day!