A Week To Remember
If you haven't picked up on the hints Jansen and myself have dropped over the past few days, I am going to spell it out for you, this will be a historical week of weather that many will remember for years to come.
From a raging blizzard stretching from Nebraska into the Dakota on Eastward to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, to a major and what will likely be a historical tornado outbreak from the Southern Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday and Friday's storm will be one with major implications for half of the Nation.
The storm will develop on Wednesday in the Southern Plains and just as quickly as it develops, it will become a major powerhouse of storms, the storm of all storms, at least compared to anything we have seen in the past several years.
The storm will strengthen to below 990 MB which is considered a very major storm, and some of our models develop the low pressure much deeper than that. A low pressure system will be located near Northwestern Missouri/Northeastern Kansas by Thursday with a warm front layed out from Kansas City to Columbus, Ohio. Isolated tornadoes and supercells will develop by Thursday afternoon across the Ohio Valley, and any storm that becomes a right mover along the warm front will be capable of producing violent tornadoes.
The storm will continue into Friday, with possibly two more rounds of severe weather, including the possibility for an extensive squall line to develop along the cold front by Friday Afternoon.
So here in the Ohio Valley what can we expect? Well basically any and every type of severe weather, including extremely damaging winds, large hail and violent tornadoes. Heavy rain will also be possible and will only aggrivate the flooding situation.
Below is an image of the 00z UKMET from this morning, showing what would likely be a historical storm deepening to 983 MB in Southern Wisconsin.
