Thank you for the heads-up for the week. Is there a chance for the single storm cells not congealing, or is that pretty set to happen in a weather pattern ike this?
No, discrete super cells like the ones we saw across Oklahoma and into Arkansas on Monday don't always congeal into a line of storms. One of the reasons I talked about the tornado threat decreasing (around 5:03 in the video) is because we are losing the instability in the atmosphere. It is this factor that will also cause the discrete super cells to struggle to maintain their structure and form instead in a line of storms. On the converse, storms are able to maintain their discrete super cell nature when a strong forcing mechanism such as a cold front is nearby or when instability in the atmosphere remains high.
Thank you for the heads-up for the week. Is there a chance for the single storm cells not congealing, or is that pretty set to happen in a weather pattern ike this?
No, discrete super cells like the ones we saw across Oklahoma and into Arkansas on Monday don't always congeal into a line of storms. One of the reasons I talked about the tornado threat decreasing (around 5:03 in the video) is because we are losing the instability in the atmosphere. It is this factor that will also cause the discrete super cells to struggle to maintain their structure and form instead in a line of storms. On the converse, storms are able to maintain their discrete super cell nature when a strong forcing mechanism such as a cold front is nearby or when instability in the atmosphere remains high.