Summary of Daily Weather
Date Being Summarized:  22 April 1995

Very substantial moisture returned onshore and was overriding a shallow cold air
mass with a surface boundary oriented NE-SW over central TX.  A reasonably vig-
orous system was moving eastward across NM that was enhancing the uplift over
the shallow cold dome.  Lapse rates initially (at 12Z) looked moderately high,
but had diminished by 00Z, presumably processed by the considerable amounts of
elevated convection that began early in the day and continued on into the night.
Some marginal severe thunderstorms developed around 12Z and produced a few iso-
lated reports in the rough SELS log in the vicinity of SPS, but this activity
diminished rapidly as is moved over the cold dome.  The majority of the severe 
weather was in the south and southeastern U.S., and there was considerable heavy
precipitation in east TX, eastward across LA and MS.  An MCS developed early in
the morning over northeast TX and northern LA that continued across the south-
eastern U.S., producing heavy precipitation and most of the severe weather.

With the advance of the system aloft over the cold air, cyclogenesis was limited
by the stability of the air mass, but a weak surface low developed in north TX
and was slowly intensifying during the day and overnight.

	Doswell