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SPC 1300Z Day 1 Outlook
Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0753 AM CDT Sat Jun 13 2026
Valid 131300Z - 141200Z
...THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS
OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND LOWER MISSOURI VALLEY...
...SUMMARY...
Scattered severe thunderstorms are likely today and tonight across
parts of the central and southern Plains to Missouri Valley and
Middle Mississippi Valley. Swaths of damaging wind gusts, large
hail, and a few tornadoes are all possible.
...Central/Southern Plains to Middle Mississippi Valley...
An active severe-weather day is anticipated with multiple rounds of
severe storms expected regionally today into tonight. Near the nose
of a southwesterly low-level jet, an initial early day severe risk
will focus across southeast Nebraska, where elevated/increasingly
organized storms are ongoing just after dawn, into southern Iowa and
northern Missouri. Large hail will remain possible, but the
potential for damaging winds may increase relatively early today as
storms spread east-southeastward.
Meanwhile, a more complex scenario exists farther south,
attributable to persistent predawn storms across the Ozarks, as well
as a decayed convective cluster and one or more residual MCVs across
Oklahoma and far southeast Kansas. These MCVs, as they focus deeper
convection along modifying outflow/differential heating zones,
should inspire renewed deeper convective development this afternoon
across parts of the Ozarks toward the Mid-South/middle Mississippi
Valley. This includes the potential for some supercells and
organizing clusters, with damaging winds and some hail as the
primary hazards through evening.
Farther west and later in the day, strong diurnal heating/steepening
low-level lapse rates preceding the surface low will result in
scattered thunderstorm development near/ahead of the
southeast-moving cold front, with the most intense development
likely favoring where the front intercepts the west-southwest
periphery of early day storms and any residual cloud cover/modifying
outflow. This will likely include central/eastern Kansas and
possibly far southeast Nebraska into western/northern Missouri.
Steep mid-level lapse rates atop rich boundary-layer moisture will
yield a strongly unstable air mass, which combined with around 40 kt
of effective shear, will support initial intense semi-discrete
supercells as then organizing clusters. All hazards seem likely
including large hail, with damaging winds potentially evolving as
the most prominent risk this evening, potentially including some
significant (75+ mph) wind gusts. The potential for tornadoes will
also exist, particularly late afternoon into evening as the
low-level jet increases, with modifying outflow potentially another
factor across west/southwest Missouri and possibly far eastern
Kansas and vicinity.
...Carolinas/Coastal Southeast...
Ample heating within a moist environment south of a front will lead
to moderately strong diurnal destabilization, with convective
development aided by the front and coastal sea breeze. Some
pulse-type locally severe storms capable of downbursts/wind damage
may occur this afternoon through around sunset.
..Guyer/Broyles.. 06/13/2026
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SPC 1630Z Day 1 Outlook
Day 1 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1130 AM CDT Sat Jun 13 2026
Valid 131630Z - 141200Z
...THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS
OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND LOWER MISSOURI VALLEY...
...SUMMARY...
Scattered severe thunderstorms are likely today and tonight from
parts of the central and southern Plains to the Lower Missouri and
Middle Mississippi Valleys. Swaths of damaging wind gusts, large
hail, and a few tornadoes are all possible.
...Central/Southern Plains to Middle Mississippi Valley...
Several different areas are already convectively active this
morning, including south-central IA/north-central MO where a bowing
segment is moving southeastward through the region, and farther
south from central/southern MO into far west-central IL, where
elevated thunderstorm are being maintained by modest warm-air
advection. Most immediate severe potential is downstream of the
bowing segment in south-central IA/north-central MO where damaging
wind gusts and isolated hail are possible over the next few hours.
Thereafter, expansive coverage of the ongoing storms in
central/southern MO introduces notable uncertainty regarding the
extent and strength of afternoon destabilization.
General expectation is for the ongoing showers and thunderstorms to
persist, aided by mesoscale ascent attendant to an MCV traversing
the region. Cloud cover will limit heating, but ample low-level
moisture will still support moderate buoyancy. Moderate deep-layer
shear is anticipated over this area as well, with perhaps some more
mesoscale enhancement attendant to the MCV. As a result, a few
stronger embedded multicells and isolated supercells are possible.
Isolated large hail and damaging gusts could occur with the
strongest storms embedded within this likely broad area of showers
and thunderstorms.
A more complex scenario is anticipated along the western edge of the
MO cluster, extending back further westward into north-central KS.
Current surface analysis shows an outflow boundary over extreme
southeast NE arcing back through north-central KS to a low over far
northwest KS. A more substantial surface low exists over southwest
KS. Surface analysis also places a cold front from northwest IA
southwestward to just north of the northwest KS low in far southwest
NE. These boundaries should all influence convective evolution
today, with the outflow/differential heating boundary along the
western edge of the MO cluster likely playing a part as well.
Strong diurnal heating/steepening low-level lapse rates preceding
the surface lows will result in scattered thunderstorm development
near/ahead of the southeast-moving cold front, with the most intense
development likely favoring where the front intercepts the western
periphery of the outflow boundary. This intersection will most
likely be over central into northeast KS. Strong buoyancy and
moderate deep-layer shear will support robust updrafts capable of
large to very large hail early in the convective cycle, before
transitioning to a more linear mode as the front continues
southeastward.
Another area of afternoon thunderstorm development is anticipated
from southern MO into west-central MO and far southeast KS, along
the western edge of the outflow/differential heating associated with
the ongoing MO cluster. Like the area farther northwest, large to
isolated very large hail is anticipated initially. Additionally,
this region could act as a corridor for upscale growth as the
development along the cold front begins to interact with the more
in-situ development along this boundary. Damaging winds will be the
most prominent risk within this corridor this evening, potentially
including some significant (75+ mph) wind gusts.
Despite numerous boundaries, the environmental conditions (i.e. high
LCLs and modest surface wind) and anticipated convective evolution
(i.e. outflow-dominant storms with quick evolution towards a linear
mode) only suggest a low-probability tornado threat from discrete
storms. A somewhat higher tornado risk could materialize within any
more robust convective line that develops, particularly during
evening as the low-level jet increases.
...Lower MI...
Scattered thunderstorms are expected along and ahead of a cold front
moving through the region today. Strong low to mid-level flow could
support a few more organized storms, beginning across northern Lower
MI now and then extending back southwestward with time this
afternoon/evening. Primary risks are isolated large hail and
damaging gusts, but a brief tornado is possible as well.
...Carolinas/Coastal Southeast...
Ample heating within a moist environment south of a weak front will
result in moderately strong diurnal destabilization, with convective
development aided by the front and coastal sea breeze. Some
pulse-type locally severe storms capable of downbursts/wind damage
may occur this afternoon through around sunset.
..Mosier/Chalmers.. 06/13/2026
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