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Issued by NWS Aberdeen, SD
Issued by NWS Aberdeen, SD
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285 FXUS63 KABR 151922 AFDABR Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Aberdeen SD 222 PM CDT Tue Jul 15 2025 .KEY MESSAGES... - A slight risk (level 2 out of 5) for severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening south of a line from Watertown to Huron to Vivian, SD. A marginal risk (level 1 out of 5) for severe weather is in place elsewhere. The primary threats will be damaging winds, large hail, and heavy rain. - Near-surface smoke moving through North Dakota will spread down into South Dakota by early this evening, potentially reducing visibility down to 2 to 4 miles. - Heavy rain is possible through late this evening. - Markedly cooler midweek temperatures with highs potentially 15 to 20 degrees below normal Wednesday and 10 to 15 degrees below normal Thursday. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 216 PM CDT Tue Jul 15 2025 At 2 PM CDT, skies are partly to mostly cloudy and scattered showers/thunderstorms are ongoing across the forecast area. A slowly southward moving cold front has just about cleared the CWA. Behind the boundary temperatures have cooled into the mid 60s to low 70s, while out ahead of the front temperatures have warmed into the 80s/low 90s. With most of the CWA behind the front, winds are predominantly north around 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Enough shortwave energy (lift) combined with the forcing on this cold frontal boundary and a strong zone of upper diffluence within the right entrance region of a 120+knot upper level jet streak over southern Canada is aiding in the continuance of showers and thunderstorms over South Dakota. These showers and storms will move off to the east, into Minnesota tonight, leaving things dry over the CWA for appx 12 hours as dry and anomalously cold surface high pressure begins building down across the northern plains. This process of high pressure building into the region will continue throughout the day Wednesday and into Wednesday night. Meanwhile, additional showers/embedded thunder perhaps are expected on Wednesday, mainly across central South Dakota as the next upper low circulation over northwest MT moves over the region. At this point, Wednesday night looks like a dry forecast period. Dry, but quite cold. Low level thermal progs and ensemble-powerd standardized 850hpa temperature anomalies indicate high temperatures on Wednesday will only be in the mid to upper 60s (normal highs are in the low to upper 80s) and low temperatures will drop into the 40s across much of the region (normal lows range from 60 to 65 degrees). Also, there is a swath of near-surface smoke up over North Dakota heading this direction. The HRRR model is progging this smoke to advect down into west central MN, northeast South Dakota late this afternoon into early this evening, and eventually over toward central South Dakota late this evening/overnight. Smoke has been added to the forecast for this afternoon through tonight. Any extensions in time for smoke inclusion will have to be taken up by the mid-shift. For Thursday and beyond, the ensemble clusters analysis features a "soft" ridge aloft over the region. The deterministic models depict a couple of instances where this ridge is interrupted by an occasional equally soft upper level trof moving west-east across NOAM and dampening the ridge. The clusters qpf analysis depicts at least a tenth of an inch over some part (if not all) of the CWA in the Days 3 through 8 timeframe. An active/wet seven day forecast? Will be watching for some nocturnal showers/storms to possibly develop late Thursday night into Friday morning when a low level jet is progged to form over the region underneath adequate mid-level WAA. The region is still feeling the effects of this cooler than normal airmass on Thursday, with daytime highs expected generally in the 70s. Beyond that, the nearly zonal flow pattern aloft purports temperatures getting back to something closer to normal, with next Monday potentially being the warmest day of the period. && .AVIATION /18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY/... Issued at 1238 PM CDT Tue Jul 15 2025 Terminals KABR,KATY,KPIR,KMBG Outside of thunderstorms, prevailing VFR conditions at KABR, KATY and KPIR will be deteriorating to MVFR/IFR (joining KMBG) conditions in low stratus over the next 6 to 12 hours behind a cold front slinking southward toward Nebraska and southeast South Dakota. Showers and thunderstorms continue across the region this afternoon and are expected to last into this evening before moving south and east out of this region. An additional round of showers is expected to work into central South Dakota Wednesday morning. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...None. MN...None. && $$ DISCUSSION...10 AVIATION...10