Northern Cells Still Higher AzShear, but Couplet not as Tight

The northern line breaks still have some higher base tilt AzShear, but the couplets are not as strong.

Looking at the 3-6km AzShear, the southern of the two breaks has a higher value aloft, but the northern one is more shallow.

A few minutes later, the MXX 0.5 Tilt AzShear has a couple of maxima right in the reflectivity breaks mentioned earlier…and a little more in the way of couplets.  If I had a SVR out on this part of the line, I’d be tempted to upgrade to TOR possible, given my history with weaker EF0-1 tornadoes along a line of storms.

Again a few minutes later, the AzShear product maxima have weakened as well as the couplets on SRM.

For analysis sake…I tend to like the Single Radar AzShear product over the merged products for low-level rotation…but did like the 3-6 km shear to see stronger cells rotating aloft.  Figure the latter would be sampled well by multiple radars across the region, whereas the 0-2 km region is better for a single radar.

Charley

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