Is it May yet?

Today looks like stuff too far away for me. The upper impulse will affect mostly Oklahoma today with some isolated stuff along the front into W TX/Permian Basin. Nothing to get too excited about. If I lived in those areas, it would be worth keeping an eye on. Some pretty incredible storm structure can occur with such setups. SPC 1300z outlook has that general area in a slight risk. These NW flow systems need better boundary flow than what we'll see today. NW flow events are usually better in later May and June especially. Although not known as tornado producing systems, they often provide quite a sepctacle of storm structure and gorilla hail.

The upper air pattern is promising to be quite an active one next week with several impulses kicking out across the plains with some stronger systems the latter half of the week. Moisture/instability will not be an issue to contend with. There should be many chase opportunities for the next 10 days.

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