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Issued by NWS Louisville, KY
Issued by NWS Louisville, KY
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470 FXUS63 KLMK 130526 AFDLMK Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Louisville KY 126 AM EDT Sun Jul 13 2025 ...Updated Aviation Discussion... .KEY MESSAGES... * Warm and humid with continued chances of showers and storms through Sunday. Gusty winds, heavy rainfall and lightning will be the main impacts but some storms could produce small hail and gusty damaging winds. Locally heavy rainfall amounts are possible. * Remaining very warm and humid for most of next week with more scattered rain and storm chances each day with heavy rain, gusty winds and lightning. && .UPDATE... Issued at 943 PM EDT Sat Jul 12 2025 Earlier convective line has pushed into eastern Kentucky, but left behind an east-west oriented outflow boundary roughly along the Cumberland Parkway. Will maintain chance POPs for scattered storms overnight roughly along and south of the Western Kentucky and Bluegrass Parkways. Storm intensity has diminished so the severe threat has ended for the night. Issued at 510 PM EDT Sat Jul 12 2025 Broken convective line is quickly working eastward across the CWA between 30-40mph. So far these storms have stayed sub-severe with gusts approaching 50 mph. As these storms work towards the Louisville Metro and north central KY they will encounter an environment with 3000 J/kg of SBCAPE, DCAPE of over 1000 J/kg and with PWAT values around 1.70". The cold pool is quickly moving out ahead of this line and is also producing some gusty winds out ahead of the main line. As this line moves into this better environment, we could see these storms get stronger and produce severe wind gusts as it reaches the Louisville Metro and east of I-65. The main threat remains strong, potentially severe wind gusts of over 60 mph, heavy torrential rainfall, and frequent lightning. Give how fast these storms are moving, flooding is not a concern. && .SHORT TERM /THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON/... Issued at 353 PM EDT Sat Jul 12 2025 A broken line of convection is coming together across southwestern IN into western KY this afternoon with a few isolated showers and storms off to the east over the Bluegrass. Current meso analysis over the CWA has SBCAPE of 3000-3500 J/kg, DCAPE of 1000-1400 J/kg, PWAT values around 1.70". As this broken line of convection moves into the CWA, the main threat remains strong damaging wind gusts of 60 mph, heavy rainfall and lightning. The northern portion along the Ohio River into southern IN remains in the Slight Risk or 2 out of 5 for severe weather this afternoon and evening. Most of this activity is associated with a pre-frontal, shortwave trough working across the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, most of the severe threat and shower and storm potential starts to diminish with the loss of daytime heating. Some of these storms could quickly weaken as they move east of I-65 towards the Blue Grass and the I-75 corridor later this evening. Other than the showers and storms, it will be muggy and warm overnight with lows in the upper 60s to low 70s with a few locations staying in the mid 70s. Tomorrow a second weak shortwave trough will swing through the Ohio Valley as the sfc front currently stretching from the Upper Midwest back into the central plains will be draped along the Ohio River to start the day. The boundary slowly works into the CWA during the day and the stalls out across the area. We will continue to have chance of widely scattered showers and storms, especially towards the afternoon. As we have seen the past few days, the main threat with any storms will be gusty winds, heavy rainfall and lightning. The threat of severe is very low for tomorrow. Highs will once again be very warm and muggy with high in the upper 80s to low 90s. && .LONG TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... Issued at 353 PM EDT Sat Jul 12 2025 By Monday the upper trough will push to the east as the sfc boundary stalls out over the southern and eastern portions of our CWA. This will continue to keep scattered showers and thunderstorms for the afternoon. The SE CONUS upper ridge tries to build in for the mid week time frame, however a weak disturbance looks to ride the NW periphery of that feature, and could bring additional showers and storms to our area for Tuesday and Wednesday. From there, mainly diurnally driven shower and storm chances are likely to continue into late week as our region remains positioned on the northern fringes of the SE CONUS ridge, and on the southern fringes of the stronger westerlies associated with a zonal flow aloft pattern. This will keep us in line for any weak triggering mechanisms embedded in the flow, and on the edge of the upper ridge where the subsidence inversion is weaker. All of this supports at least some diurnally driven shower and storm chances each afternoon and evening. Temps will likely be slightly above normal for this time of year with highs peaking in the upper 80s and low 90s. Any early convection each day could knock temps down, but will likely reach low 90s by early afternoon with scattered PM storms providing some spotty relief from temps at times. && .AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z MONDAY/... Issued at 125 AM EDT Sun Jul 13 2025 A few showers will still be around early this morning, but expect the terminals to stay dry once this valid period begins. Will continue to monitor if a stray shower is expected to impact a terminal. Otherwise, the main focus this morning will be for some MVFR ceilings at HNB/SDF/LEX from around sunrise through around late morning as a cool front drops toward our area. Those ceilings should clear by midday or so, and expect VFR thereafter. There may end up being another round of showers and storms later this afternoon and evening, however confidence is low at this point so will lean on a dry forecast for now. && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...None. IN...None. && $$ UPDATE...RAS/BTN SHORT TERM...BTN LONG TERM...BTN AVIATION...BJS