Severe Storms Today (5/27)

I'm up early this morning to watch a few storms that have been severe. While these storms are loud and are waking a people up too early on a Saturday morning, they are not as bad as what we are expecting tonight. Here are some bullet points:

• The morning storms should be out of Region 8 by 8AM
• The rest of the daytime hours look mostly dry. 
• The air becomes VERY unstable through the day.
• A line of severe storms will start moving into our northern counties about 7:00 PM
• The line will be moving through the heart of Region 8 about 10:00.

Here's how radar might look about 7:00 PM:

By 9:00 PM, the line is moving through with high winds, lots of lightning, hail... and the low chance of a tornado:

As I mentioned, the air is going to be VERY unstable. CAPE measures the amount of energy available for the storms. This is the highest I have seen it this year:

CAPE is not the only ingredient needed for severe weather. Other parameters are not as great, but still enough to support a severe weather event.

Stay tuned!

Ryan