Severe threat this evening...

Looks like the potential for severe weather will be with us this evening. A large portion of the Charlotte metro region is under a tornado watch, and it looks like we have the right mixture of helicity (turning of the winds with height) and instability to promote a threat of damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. See the two charts above.....top chart shows helicity and bottom chart shows CAPE.

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