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945 ACUS01 KWNS 100522 SWODY1 SPC AC 100520 Day 1 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 1220 AM CDT Fri Oct 10 2025 Valid 101200Z - 111200Z ...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AREAS FORECAST... ...SUMMARY... Severe thunderstorm potential appears negligible today. ...Western U.S... Strong upper low off the Pacific Northwest Coast is forecast to advance inland during the latter half of the period. As this occurs, dominant upper ridge over the southern High Plains will be suppressed south into northeast Mexico as broad midlevel height falls spread across much of the western U.S. Latest model guidance continues to favor moist trajectories across western Mexico into the southern Great Basin/Four Corners. As a result, seasonally high PW values will remain entrenched across this region and this will limit lapse rates within a weak-modest instability environment. As the upper trough advances east, midlevel flow will strengthen across the lower CO River Valley into the Great Basin such that vertical shear profiles may become supportive of a few weak supercells, per 23z forecast sounding at LAS (30kt 0-6km shear). Poor-weak lapse rates and weak low-level shear are not particularly conducive for organized severe, thus will maintain less than 5% severe probs during the day1 period. Elsewhere, scattered thunderstorms are expected within a poor lapse rate environment across much of the FL Peninsula, and across portions of the mid MS Valley into the Great Lakes region in association with a digging upper trough. Severe is not expected in either of these areas due to weak instability. ..Darrow/Weinman.. 10/10/2025 $$