🌪️⁉️Conditionally Significant Tornado Threat Today

If things line up just right, there could be a lot of tornadoes once again today.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but there are two areas of significant tornado risk today, one across the Midwest and another in the South.

The comparisons to last Friday’s setup are natural because we humans can’t help ourselves, but this setup is a completely different thing altogether. Let’s take a look.

The Setup

A large trough is ejecting out towards the middle of the country today, with rich moisture screaming north along a warm front. However, a pretty stout capping inversion is evident this morning across the Central U.S.

• In the north, thermodynamic profiles point to a pretty stout cap that’ll need upper air support to arrive in order to break. This should happen late in the afternoon.

• To the south, a more shallow moisture airmass has taken shape across Texas, which is advecting into Oklahoma and Arkansas through the day. This is strengthening the cap and also likely delaying…