Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Memphis, TN
Issued by NWS Memphis, TN
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910 FXUS64 KMEG 041149 AFDMEG Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Memphis TN 649 AM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 ...New AVIATION... .SYNOPSIS... Issued at 317 AM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 Warm, humid, and wet conditions will continue through Wednesday as a series of systems trek across the region. Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible, mainly during the afternoon and evening hours through Wednesday. Dry and less humid conditions will settle in Thursday and Friday before another system arrives this weekend. && .DISCUSSION... (Today through Monday) Issued at 317 AM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 Relatively weak zonal flow aloft will persist through Wednesday resulting in a continuing active weather pattern. Several shortwaves will trek across the region and keep showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. Return flow at the surface will keep dewpoints in the 70s until the pattern change and provide ample instability for convective activity. Thankfully, deterministic soundings hint at weak shear to continue and suppress updrafts from becoming too severe. A Marginal Risk for severe storms is in place today as MLCAPE values hang around 1500 J/kg at peak heating. Convection looks to initiate along some sort of outflow boundary left by a remnant MCV that settled into the region late last night. Any storms that do intensify propose a damaging wind, large hail, and localized flash flooding threat. PWs are forecast to be ~1.8" (which nears the 90th percentile) on a fairly saturated surface. Additional rainfall will aggravate already elevated rivers and streams, resulting in flooding concerns. A slow moving cold front will start to approach on Wednesday morning. Thunderstorms associated with this front may be severe over the Southern Plains and ArkLaTex region, but storms look to weaken as they approach the Mid-South. Any residual outflow boundaries could be enough for initiation and storms would likely be outflow dominant which could provide a damaging wind threat. There is a lot of uncertainty with timing and coverage on Wednesday. QPF through the remainder of the active pattern is generally 2" or less, but locally higher amounts are possible. A pattern change looks to come as a reinforcing cold front crosses the area on Thursday. Somewhat cooler conditions will settle in on Friday with highs still in the 80s, however, dewpoints will hang in the 50s and 60s providing a brief break in humid conditions. Unfortunately, high pressure will not reign for long as a low pressure system will track across the Great Lakes Region this weekend. Showers and thunderstorms will return to the region as a cold front moves across the area. DNM && .AVIATION... (12Z TAFS) Issued at 639 AM CDT Tue Jun 4 2024 Mainly VFR conds will persist through the period. The exception will be TUP and MKL where MVFR CIGs may persist for a couple of hours this morning. A mesoscale convective complex will rotate into the region from the west this afternoon and ignite SHRAs and TSRAs. Confidence on timing and spatial coverage of SHRAs and TSRAs remains low. Hi-res models have a general consensus for timing, cut coverage and intensity varies widely. MVFR CIGs look to develop after 05Z and could persist into the next TAF cycle. Obs at JBR and MKL have been intermittent, so AMD NOT SKED is being carried through this TAF set. AC3 && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. MO...None. MS...None. TN...None. && $$ PUBLIC FORECAST...DNM AVIATION...AC3