Upcoming Severe Weather Event

That wind is blowing like crazy out there today! We are warming up nicely in response to the southerly breeze and the sunshine. This will continue into your day Friday which will create an unstable atmosphere as the cold front gets ready to push on through. That cold front will be giving us the lift we need to drive that warm airmass into the sky thus developing thunderstorms. Friday is looking very interesting at this point. We will be in a slight risk for severe weather tomorrow. If you look at the latest SPC Outlook, there is a 30% chance for severe weather to develop. Here is a link that you can go check out for yourself: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/

This has changed from this morning, and it looks like they may even consider upgrading it to a moderate risk for tomorrow potentially. We will have plenty of warm, moist, unstable air in place tomorrow afternoon so as soon as the cap breaks, things could get quite interesting around here. There is going to be quite a bit of strong shearing in the lower levels of the atmosphere, this is detected by hodographs. This means that the winds will be shifting directions in the lower levels to the point where you have winds going in opposite directions very close to the surface. This is ideal for rotation in super cell development and there is the potential for tornadoes in the middle Mississippi Valley (that includes us!). Needless to say, tomorrow will be very interesting to see how things play out. We could see a complete bust, or we could see a crazy outbreak. It will be much easier to decide what we are dealing with tomorrow morning when we have new data to work with. Until then, keep it right here to KOMU 8 News for the latest in severe weather coverage and if you haven't already log on to our website www.komu.com to sign up for our text alerts in the event of a warning in your area.