SUBVORTEX STATUS MESSAGE

DATE: 5/22/98
STATUS: GO... Hutchinson to South Haven

EQUIPMENT STATUS:

  Mobile Mesonets: All systems OK
  DOWS:  Ready
  UMASS Radar: down indefinitely
  Rockets: No
  Turtles:  operational
  RALPH:  operational
  NOAA P-3:  Unknown

SYNOPSIS:

Deep trof moving eastward toward the Plains.  Strong jet advancing out of 
NM into N OK this evening.

DAY 1 FORECAST:

No time.... Target: McPherson/Hesston/Wichita/Wellington etc.  
Probability of convection 35-60%.  Conditional Prob of supercell 90-98%.  
Conditional prob of tornado 50-60%.  CAPE will be huge; shear will be 
huge; today we don't have cirrus or cold pool problems.

DAY 2 FORECAST:

Unknown.


DAY n FORECAST:

Stay tuned.

MISCELLANEOUS:

Another good data collection mission from McCook to Holdredge NE 
yesterday with MM's, photography, and DOWs.