Large-scale Summary

  • The February 24, 2016 severe weather event occurred with highly amplified large-scale flow and strong upper-level jet dynamics.
  • Instability was very low, but there appeared to be at least a little CAPE available.
  • Low-level winds fields were anomalously large.
  • Good local severe weather analogs were lacking for this case; however the best analog available featured tornadoes.


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