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FXUS64 KLUB 161709
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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
1209 PM CDT Wed Aug 16 2017

.AVIATION...
Frontal boundary has pushed through PVW and LBB, where winds
continue to turn more northerly but are expected to remain light.
Wind shift to occur in the next hour or two at CDS, but again,
winds expected to lighten post-FROPA. Thunderstorm activity this
afternoon and evening expected to remain east of all TAF sites.

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PREV DISCUSSION... /issued 327 AM CDT Wed Aug 16 2017/

DISCUSSION...
An upper level short wave which brought isolated storms to the
region yesterday evening was departing out towards the Midwest
early this morning. This system will drag a cold front through the
area today and stall out. This cold front will become the focus
for additional convection this afternoon into the evening. Models
were fairly mixed earlier on whether convection will develop along
this front but the latest model runs have come in better agreement
depicting isolated thunderstorm development along and to the
southeast of the front; mostly across the Rolling Plains. However,
monsoonal moisture will be shunted to the southeast with the
departing short wave. Strong low level moisture ahead of the front
will continue to result in mixed layer instabilities between 1500
and 2000 J/kg by late afternoon. Even the instability alone may be
able to obtain isolated convection with minimal subsidence
overhead.

The center of a sprawling upper level ridge over the southeastern
US will begin to move west on Thursday. This will leave the area
locally in a weakness aloft which may allow thunderstorms to
develop again. The cold front that is expected to affect the
region today will retreat back north during the day on Thursday
allowing the entire region to become unstable. The upper ridge
will become more centered over West Texas from Friday through the
weekend. This may keep convection at a minimum until early next
week. The ridge will be nudged to the east by a deep upper level
trough becoming established off the west coast. The position of
these features may allow monsoonal moisture to become stationed
near or just west of the region allowing for convection chances to
return.

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.LUB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.
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