Previsão forte para o norte
Storm Forecast
Valid: Mon 04 May 2015 06:00 to Tue 05 May 2015 06:00 UTC
Issued: Mon 04 May 2015 00:03
Forecaster: VAN DER VELDE
A level 2 was issued for N Portugal and NW Spain mainly for tornadoes and severe convective wind gusts.
A level 2 was issued for SW to N France mainly for severe convective wind gusts, large hail and tornadoes.
A level 1 was issued for parts of Portugal, northern Spain, central and western France and the Benelux countries mainly for severe gust, large hail and tornado chances.
SYNOPSIS
An active depression near Portugal is advecting significantly warmer, unstable air with a SSW-ly flow into southwestern Europe. It follows in the wake of an old low with its core west of Ireland which briefly brought a surge of warm air into western and central Europe. A remnant occlusion is decaying between Czech Republic and Ukraine.
The Portuguese low is a highly baroclinic system with a marked warm front about 100 km north of the line Galicia - Switzerland during the afternoon. Strong flow veering with height is present across the warm sector and a Spanish Plume situation develops, this time separately from the Saharan Air Layer which runs over the western Mediterranean basin.
Around 12Z the cold front enters the Iberian Peninsula and reaches SW France around 21Z along with the center of the low passing west of Brittany. By Tuesday 06Z the warm front is predicted to have reached northern Netherlands and central UK.
DISCUSSION
...Portugal and NW Spain...
The northern portion of the cold front over this region around 15Z is backed by a PV lobe which causes strong upward motion. The cold front passes earlier at mid levels which creates a zone with a negative vertical theta-e gradient (potential instability) which combines with a few hundred J/kg MLCAPE. A line of discrete cells or a continuous linear convective system are thought to form. Since the flow at 1-3 km AGL averages 30 m/s, very severe wind gusts can be produced by these storms. On the other hand, very low LCLs reduce cold pool strength. This may rather benefit the tornado threat from supercells, which is significant due to nearly 20 m/s 0-1 km shear, 20 m/s 1-8 km shear and SREH over 250 m²/s² over 0-3 km. Over northern Spain, cloud bases are higher while low level winds and shear are reduced. SREH and deep layer shear do allow supercell storms with a larger chance of large hail and lower tornado/gust chance.