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Issued by NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Issued by NWS Sioux Falls, SD
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497 FXUS63 KFSD 080833 AFDFSD Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD 333 AM CDT Tue Jul 8 2025 .KEY MESSAGES... - Light winds overnight will promote areas of locally dense fog mainly west of I-29 to start the day. Visibilities of a mile or less will persist through the mid-morning. - Scattered shower and thunderstorms likely return from Wednesday night into Thursday morning. While the risk for stronger storms is low, locally heavy downpours will be possible. - Additional chances for showers and storms will continue into the late week with the focus being between Thursday and Friday. Mixed storm modes could bring a variety of severe weather risk, but slower storm motions may also bring a locally heavy rain risk. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 330 AM CDT Tue Jul 8 2025 TODAY & TONIGHT: A mostly quiet day ahead! Taking a look across the area, we`re continuing to gradually break free from the cloud cover this morning with clearer conditions returning northwest of a Wagner to Sioux Falls to Tracy, MN line. With lingering moisture from recent rainfall and lighter surface winds, we`re already starting to see some patchy areas of locally dense fog develop along the U.S. Highway-14 corridor this morning. While widespread development is not expect, visibilities of a mile or less will be possible mostly across southeastern SD through the mid-morning. With this in mind, make sure to increase those following distance and slow down when making those morning commutes! From here, another warm and quiet day is ahead as high peak in the low to upper 80s this afternoon. Expect the mostly quieter conditions to carry over into overnight hours temperatures gradually decrease into the low to mid 50s for the night. Lastly, could see a few "popcorn" showers develop across southcentral SD late Tuesday night as the nose of an upper-level jet interacts with some lingering pieces of vorticity. While any accumulations will likely be limited, expect this activity to develop between midnight and 6 am on Wednesday. WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY: Looking into the midweek, an active pattern returns aloft as weak ridging gradually breaks down over the western CONUS. With the return of southerly surface winds by Wednesday and strengthening warm air advection (WAA) aloft, expect conditions to trend warmer with highs likely peaking in the 80s and low 90s. From here, the focus turns towards the overnight hours as a quick mid- level wave pushes across the state and intersects a warm front triggering a few scattered showers and thunderstorms across central and southcentral SD. While this developing activity will have access to a decently unstable environment with 1000-1800 J/kg of instability and 25-35 kts of bulk shear, model soundings show growing inhibition at the surface due to the lack of diurnal heating. With this in mind, unless this activity can manage to stay elevated; expect any lingering showers/storms to struggle and gradually weaken as they progress southeastwards throughout the night. By Thursday, could see some scattered activity persist during the day as little piece of vorticity interact with a lingering surface boundary. However, the main focus continues to be on the evening to overnight hours as a strengthening shortwave ejects out of the Rockies and lifts through our area. While there is still a great deal of uncertainty regarding the evolution of this system, the high CAPE/low shear environment ahead of this system; will likely support an isolated to scattered severe risk with stronger storms potentially develop strong cold pools. As instability wanes overnight, slower storm motions along with PWATs between 1.50 to 1.75 inches will promote a locally heavy rainfall risk into Friday. Lastly, given the increasing precipitation chances; expect temperatures to sit near to just below normal with highs in the 70s and 80s during the latter parts of the week. SATURDAY ONWARDS: Heading into the extended period, long-range guidance begins to diverge in terms of the location/timing of synoptic scale features. However, the overall pattern does favor troughing somewhere over the northern plains. With this in mind, could see some spotty precipitation chances (<20%) on Saturday with mostly quiet conditions returning through Monday. Otherwise, expect conditions to trend warmer heading into the start of the week with highs in the mid 80s to low 90s between Sunday and Monday. && .AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z WEDNESDAY/... Issued at 1024 PM CDT Mon Jul 7 2025 Light winds overnight could result in patchy fog formation across the area late tonight into Tuesday morning. Light winds will continue on Tuesday with VFR conditions expected through the remainder of the TAF period. && .FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...None. MN...None. IA...None. NE...None. && $$ DISCUSSION...05 AVIATION...JM