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FXUS63 KDMX 142331
AFDDMX

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
631 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013

.SHORT TERM.../TONIGHT /...
ISSUED AT 346 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013 PRIMARY CONCERNS WILL OF
COURSE BE CONVECTIVE TRENDS OVERNIGHT. CURRENT SCENARIO HAS
TYPICAL MID JUNE RING OF FIRE IN PLACE OVER SRN CONUS RIDGE WITH
RING DELINEATED FAIRLY NICELY BY NARROW RIBBON OF HIGH K INDICES
FROM NE ACROSS NE INTO IA. MCV FROM OVERNIGHT CONVECTION IS
CURRENTLY MOVING INTO SERN IA WITH DEPARTING MCS...WHILE ANOTHER
CLUSTER HAS DEVELOPED ON TRAILING SPIRAL WITHIN WEAK BROAD QG
FORCING. PRIMARY ATTENTION WILL BE UPSTREAM HOWEVER LOOKING AT
GENESIS REGION OVER NE. K INDEX RIBBON IS CURRENT COINCIDENT WITH
SURFACE BOUNDARY JUST WEST OF O NEILL AND BROKEN BOW...WHICH IS
ALSO AN AREA OF DEEPER MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. NOSE OF 3000 PLUS
MLCAPES REACHES INTO THIS AREA WITH MLCINH CONTINUING TO ERODE.
THIS COULD CERTAINLY BE AN AREA WHERE SURFACE BASED CONVECTION
DEVELOPS AND EVENTUALLY REACHES IA LATER THIS EVENING.

IF STORMS FROM THIS AREA DO NOT MAKE IT INTO IA...ADDITIONAL
ELEVATED DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR WITH STRONG ISENT LIFT NOTED ALONG
310K ISENT SURFACE AT BASE OF STEEPER LAPSE RATES AND SHOULD
TRIGGER MCS ANYWAY. ELEVATED CINH APPEARS DECENT BUT LIKELY NOT
GREAT ENOUGH TO OVERCOME ISENT LIFT. SOUNDINGS ARE SOMEWHAT DRY
1-3KM SO WITH ELEVATED CAPES OVER 2000 J/KG AT TIMES LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BOTH BE A THREAT.

.LONG TERM.../SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/...
ISSUED AT 346 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013

MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS WITH TIMING OF CONVECTION AND HEAVY
RAIN/SEVERE POTENTIAL ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONVECTION SATURDAY
AND SATURDAY NIGHT. MODELS IN GOOD OVERALL SYNOPTIC AGREEMENT
THROUGH SUNDAY...BUT HAVE DIFFERENCES WRT TO PRECIP
TOTALS...LOCATION AND TIMING. LEANED TOWARD A BLEND THROUGH
SUNDAY...THEN THE ECMWF MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...SURFACE BOUNDARY LAYS UP ACROSS NORTHERN IOWA
SATURDAY MORNING AND SHOULD ALLOW FOR OVERNIGHT CONVECTION TO BE
CONFINED TO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA BETWEEN 12 AND
18Z SATURDAY. ONCE THE NEXT 500MB VORT MAX AND SHORTWAVE MOVE
ACROSS THE STATE BY THE AFTERNOON SATURDAY...CONVECTION LOOKS TO
REDEVELOP OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA
PAST 20Z SATURDAY AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WARM LAYER
CLOUD DEPTH RANGES FROM 12000 TO 13000 FEET WITH PRECIPITABLE
WATER VALUES NEARING 2 INCHES BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON...SO EFFICIENT
RAIN PRODUCERS ARE LIKELY. AS FAR AS THE SEVERE POTENTIAL...BEST
INSTABILITY WILL BE CONFINED GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF
INTERSTATE 35 SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH MLCAPE RANGING FROM 2000
J/KG TO NEAR 4000 J/KG. NOT ANTICIPATING MUCH CLEARING ACROSS THE
FORECAST AREA SATURDAY TO ALLOW FOR SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY TO
INCREASE. DEEP LAYER SHEAR IN THE 25 TO 40 KNOT RANGE AND SO NOT
THE BEST ENVIRONMENT OF ORGANIZED LONG UPDRAFTS...BUT LOW LEVEL
SHEAR SOME WHAT FAVORABLE FOR TORNADIC POTENTIAL. HAVE BEST POPS
ACROSS CENTRAL TO SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FRONT LOOKS TO SAG FAR ENOUGH SOUTH TO
CONFINE POPS ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA BY SUNDAY MORNING. WENT A LITTLE
ABOVE GUIDANCE FOR MAX TEMPS ON SUNDAY WITH DRY WEATHER
ANTICIPATED MUCH OF THE DAY.

SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH DURING THE
DAY MONDAY WITH CONVECTION POTENTIAL LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY
MONDAY MORNING. GFS HAS MUCH MORE PRECIP THAN THE ECMWF AND LEANED
TOWARD THE ECMWF AS SOUNDINGS NOT REALLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE AMOUNT
PRECIP GFS HAS GOING ON MONDAY. REGARDLESS...KEPT POPS ACROSS THE
EAST MONDAY MORNING AND INCREASED POPS OVER THE SOUTH LATE SUNDAY
NIGHT.

HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER PATTERN THROUGH MUCH OF THE
WEEK AND ALLOW FOR SOME MUCH NEEDED DRY WEATHER. NEXT POTENTIAL FOR
RAIN LOOKS TO BE BY THURSDAY WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE CUTTING ACROSS
THE REGION.

&&

.AVIATION...15/00Z
ISSUED AT 627 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013

AREA OF SHRA/TSRA WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH EASTWARD AFFECTING
KDSM/KOTM/KALO THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD. ANTICIPATE
ANOTHER AREA OF SHRA/TSRA TO DEVELOP ACROSS NE AND PUSH INTO
IOWA...AFFECTING SITES TOWARDS 06Z-12Z. HAVE LIMITED TSRA MENTION
ATTM PAST 06Z WITH UNCERTAINTY AT SITES. WILL ALSO LIKELY SEE SHRA
LINGERING THROUGH THE DAY AT NORTHERN SITES..KMCW/KALO BEFORE
PUSHING SOUTH LATE IN THE PERIOD. CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES WILL
REMAIN PRIMARILY VFR...THOUGH MAY BE REDUCED TO MVFR OR LOWER FROM
TIME TO TIME WITH SHRA/TSRA.

&&

.HYDROLOGY...
ISSUED AT 346 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013 ALTHOUGH THE ENVIRONMENT IS
NOT IDEAL WITH SOUNDINGS STILL SHOWING SOME 1-3KM DRY
AIR...SOUNDINGS DO SHOW SOMEWHAT MORE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS AND
DEEPER MOISTURE ACROSS NERN SECTIONS OVERNIGHT. CURRENT 1.7 INCH
PLUS PWATS REMAIN IN PLACE AND EVEN PUSH 2 INCHES AT TIMES WITH
WARM CLOUD DEPTHS INCREASING. MEAN WINDS ARE A LITTLE STRONG...UP
TO 35 KTS AT TIMES...HOWEVER STRONG MOISTURE TRANSPORT WILL HELP
FEED MCS AND ALSO CAUSE CORFIDI VECTORS TO REGENERATE SRN PORTIONS
OF COMPLEX. THUS SEE NO REASON TO ALTER GOING FLASH FLOOD WATCH AT
THIS POINT. FURTHER EXPANSION MAY BE NEEDED SOUTHWARD AS WELL
DEPENDING ON HOW CONVECTIVE TRENDS PLAY OUT. WILL CONTINUE HEAVY
RAIN WORDING IN FORECAST AS WELL.

&&

.DMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING FOR BLACK HAWK-BREMER-
BUTLER-CALHOUN-CERRO GORDO-EMMET-FRANKLIN-GRUNDY-HAMILTON-
HANCOCK-HARDIN-HUMBOLDT-KOSSUTH-PALO ALTO-POCAHONTAS-SAC-WEBSTER-
WINNEBAGO-WORTH-WRIGHT.

&&

$$

SHORT TERM...SMALL
LONG TERM...PODRAZIK
AVIATION...AWB
HYDROLOGY...SMALL