Summary of Daily Weather
Date Being Summarized:  05 April 1995

By the morning, the system in the southern branch became vertically stacked over
central TX, and most of the high lapse rates over the southern plains had dimin-
ished.  The vertical stacking indicated that the system would slow down during
the day, which happened.  It appears that with the residual moisture and some
surface heating in a clear slot that wrapped around the system, there were some
"cold air funnels" over central TX, but there were no tornadoes reported, nor
were there severe weather reports of any sort within the VORTEX area (as of the
next morning).  By the evening, the wave had opened up and was commencing to
move out ... low level moisture on land over TX had diminished, but the southern
half of the Rockies showed considerable 700 mb warming, so mid-tropospheric
lapse rates had increased substantially.

Elsewhere, the unseasonably cold arctic air mass had moved through New England
and the Mid-Atlantic states and was beginning to retreat over the northern
plains.  That retreat was well underway by evening.  In the wake of that cold
airmass, a relatively weak shortwave trough was moving through the northern
plains, with strong warm advection in the vicinity of the Great Lakes and high
midtropospheric lapse rates had been swept off the Rockies into Illinois by 00Z.
Given the rather dry air mass involved, nothing significant in terms of convec-
tion was associated with this northern plains system.

A series of short wave troughs was driving the westerlies southward over the 
eastern Pacific, with ridging over the Rockies in the wake of the retreating
systems in the northern and southern branches of the westerlies over the plains.

	Doswell