ACUS03 KWNS 031922
SWODY3
SPC AC 031921
Day 3 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0221 PM CDT Mon Aug 03 2026
Valid 051200Z - 061200Z
...THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EASTERN
KANSAS INTO WEST-CENTRAL ILLINOIS...OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ARIZONA...AND FROM NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO INTO THE OKLAHOMA/TEXAS PANHANDLES......
...SUMMARY...
Isolated severe storms appear possible from eastern Kansas into
west-central Illinois, over portions of southern Arizona, and from
northeast New Mexico into the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles Wednesday
afternoon and evening.
...Synopsis...
Broadly cyclonic flow will remain across the north-central US on
D3/Wednesday, with an embedded short-wave trough and associated
mid-level jet streak moving through the mid and lower MO Valley. At
the surface, a cold front will extend from the Great Lakes back
westward into the Mid-Missouri Valley and south and west into the
southern Great Plains.
...Lower Missouri/mid Mississippi Valleys into eastern Kansas...
Elevated storms are likely to be ongoing at the start of the D3
period across portions of NE and IA into southern WI and northern
IL. The evolution of this convection and resulting outflows will
likely have impacts on placement of the front by the afternoon. This
leads to some uncertainty in where the best corridor will be for
renewed storm development by the afternoon. Nonetheless, guidance
suggests that a corridor of moderate to strong instability will
develop across portions of central Missouri/eastern Kansas. The
strongest shear remains mainly parallel to and along and north of
the cold front. Lapse rate profiles across central/northern Missouri
are poor, but a more favorable convection free air mass with steep
low to mid-level lapse rates will exist further south of the front
into south-central/southern Missouri and across eastern Kansas. This
narrow region of more favorable overlap of shear/instability/lapse
rates may support isolated supercell development and potential for
large hail, damaging winds, and perhaps a tornado.
...Southern Arizona...
Convection will build again across the high terrain in southern
Arizona D3/Wednesday before dropping southward into the lower
deserts. While deep-layer shear will remain relatively weak, the
presence of a deep, well-mixed boundary layer will support the
potential for isolated severe wind gusts during the afternoon into
evening.
...Northeast New Mexico into the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles...
Convective development is expected across the Sangre de Cristo
Mountains and adjacent Raton Mesa Wednesday afternoon. Guidance
suggests convection may also develop to the east across the OK/TX
Panhandles, with potential for convection to grow upscale and
potentially move across the Texas Panhandle and collide with
convection out of eastern New Mexico. Given the hot/dry/well mixed
air mass to the south of the front, this may pose a conditional risk
for strong to severe wind and expansion of the 5% area was
warranted.
..Thornton.. 08/03/2026
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