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Upgraded 'Enhanced' Level 3 Severe Risk in E. Panhandle & West Texas Later Today

The Storm Prediction Center has upgraded the eastern Texas Panhandle and West-Central Texas to an ‘enhanced’ level 3 risk of severe weather. This risk area was added due to increased confidence in several severe storms capable of producing destructive hail from about 3 PM to 10 PM today. The tornado risk is very low to downright non-zero today thanks to very high cloud bases and lackluster low-level wind shear. Temperatures will approach 100 degrees across the risk area by the mid-afternoon hours. Those hot temperatures combined with dewpoint temperatures in the middle 60s to upper 60s will create a very unstable airmass. Overall wind shear values will be modest, but sufficient to support organized convective modes. I do expect to have widely scattered slow-moving supercells underway by the late afternoon hours. These storms will probably tend to move east/southeast at only 10 to 25 MPH. Activity should remain much more isolated south of Interstate 20 as the capping inversion will be stronger. Not everyone will see storms today in the risk zone. In fact, coverage may remain below 30-40 percent. However, the strongest storms will be big-time hailers. Like the past two days, we’ll see storms start weakening not long after sunset as the capping inversion strengthens and ‘squashes’ the storms. We should be mostly done with the severe weather threat by 10 PM, but some weaker storms may continue on into the late evening. For more forecast information head on over to Jenny’s detailed blog from earlier this morning.

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David Reimer

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