Yesterday, I went to the final session on storm spotting in Peculiar MO. Before coming to IHOP, I have always had a fascination with weather and storm. Here is what I really want to see:
1. A relatively calm storm season nation-wide until...
On a very strategic day...
A sharp negative-tilt trough punching in from the Northwest with height falls in excess of 200 Mb; A rapidly deepening surface low tracking from central Kansas to central Iowa between 18z and 06z with a central pressure of less than 995 mb falling to less than 980mb; LLJ from SSW at 60+kts; 500mb jet from the SW at 100+ kts; 300 mb Polar Jet and Subtropical jet blowing 120 kts+ interacting with strong divergence; several days of rich gulf moisture advecting northward; surface temps into the low 80’s and dew temps in the upper 60’s in the warm sector across eastern Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Eastern Texas, Eastern Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, and into the south east; overtopped by lapse rates of 8 degrees Celsius/km; with rain/snow on the back side of the mid-latitude cyclone (temperature contrast of 50 degrees or so).
For any meteorologists out there, lets root/pray for a set up like this...
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