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Issued by NWS Charleston, WV
Issued by NWS Charleston, WV
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-- Discussion containing changed information from previous version are highlighted. --494 FXUS61 KRLX 271504 AFDRLX AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION National Weather Service Charleston WV 1104 AM EDT Fri Jun 27 2025 .SYNOPSIS...-- Changed Discussion --The heat wave continues, easing up slightly as the chance for afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms continues heading into the weekend.-- End Changed Discussion --&& .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/...-- Changed Discussion --As of 1100 AM Friday... Sent a Flood Watch for flash flooding for portions of our northeast counties, including our central and northern mountains through 2 AM tonight. Antecedent precipitation during the last couple of days, has produce lower FFG over these areas. The afternoon environment is conducive for slow-moving heavy downpours conducive to localize flash flooding. In addition, it will take less rainfall to produce flooding over near saturated areas. Rest of forecast remains on track. As of 340 AM Friday... Key Points: * Another hot and muggy day will be on tap for today. Heat Advisories remain in effect for the lower elevations until this evening. * Showers and thunderstorms are anticipated once again this afternoon and evening in response to the humidity and contribution of a nearby frontal boundary. * The slow movement of these storms, in combination with antecedent wet soil conditions, may once again serve up localized high water issues by late this evening. Hot and muggy weather remains in full swing today amid strong influence of an upper level ridge parked over the eastern half of the country. Heat concerns remain at the forefront of the near period, with heat indices once again stretching into the upper 90s to the triple digit mark across the lower elevations. Therefore, a Heat Advisory will remain in effect through this evening. This prolonged period of oppressive heat will gradually ease its grip over the forecast area after today. At the surface, a frontal boundary remains drawn from the Upper Great Lakes and down into the Mid-Atlantic region. The front slips backward into the northeast WV mountains throughout the day, and will be the corridor of heaviest rainfall expected within this forecast period. A small bullseye of 2+ inches of forecast rainfall banks up against our northeastern zones through tonight, and think this is the best potential to receive anything more than localized high water spots. Therefore, opted to not join in with the Baltimore/Washington forecast office on a Flood Watch, especially given how sparse recent rainfall has been for our higher terrain areas. For our side of the Appalachians and down into the lower elevations, another day of sporadic shower and storm development is anticipated during the afternoon, with outflow boundary collisions propelling additional development into the evening. Initial start up of convective activity is progged around 1 PM, with the risk for damaging wind gusts increasing late in the afternoon, in similar fashion to what occurred on Wednesday and Thursday. With steering flow aloft remaining lackluster today, storms are once again expected to be slow moving and could impose more high water issues later this evening. This will especially be the case in spots that have already received a decent amount of rain in recent days. Hi-res CAMs suggest storm activity wanes very late tonight, with small reprieve overnight ahead of additional chances of daily precipitation heading into the weekend.-- End Changed Discussion --&& .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... As of 330 AM Friday... A low pressure system traversing the Great Lakes into Canada on Saturday will drop down and slide through a cold front across the area. This feature will be weak in nature but will have the capability of producing numerous showers and thunderstorms since summer is in full throttle with temperatures right around 90 degrees for the daytime highs. This will aid in supporting longer lived storms with more instability as seen in forecast soundings which are indicating up to 4000J/kg MU CAPE, however with weak upper level flow shear is low and movement will be very slow. This means the issues will likely be hydro along with possible severe storms. PWATS are up near 2 inches, dew points in the mid 70s and DCAPE up near 1000J/kg so heavy downpours will be a given. Hopefully that frontal boundary will speed up but right now its not forecast to exit the area until Saturday night. The good thing is lapse rates fall off below environmental and instability along with DCAPE falls off leaving skinny CAPE which will mainly just support the hydro side of things going into the evening and nighttime. Expect it to be slightly hotter for Sunday by a few degrees with high pressure at the surface building in, but unfortunately it will not suppress diurnal convection although chances for convection will be a lot lower than the previous day. Seems like hydro would be the main issue as well with high moisture in the column and PWATs anomalously high along with skinny CAPE, high DCAPE and weak upper level flow once again. No synoptic features around to support severe thunderstorms but one cannot rule an isolated one out during the afternoon, however the main threat will be heavy downpours with possible hydro issues. Temperatures will remain elevated but just below heat advisory criteria which may even get suppressed more from convection during the daytime so any heat headlines will not likely be needed at this time for Sunday. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... As of 330 AM Friday... Weak upper level ridging passes by for Monday and with surface high pressure fleeting an upper level trough slides into position over the area later in the day on Monday. This new feature will likely produce shower and thunderstorm activity through Tuesday at which point a possible frontal boundary will pass through as the upper level trough exits toward the east later in the day on Tuesday. Thereafter, we get a nice break from unsettled weather due to high pressure actually being a clean high pressure system this time around. Temperatures will remain at seasonable or above for the remainder of this period, however it will not be as hot as it has previously been and apparent temperatures will stay below advisory criteria. && .AVIATION /15Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...-- Changed Discussion --As of 620 AM Friday... River valley fog across the southern coalfields are prominent on satellite imagery this morning, while the northern half of our airspace remains entrenched beneath lingering mid-level clouds. Additional cloud development is anticipated this afternoon amid hot and muggy conditions, which will also yield sporadic showers and thunderstorms for the afternoon and evening. Precipitation will linger into late tonight and will occasionally support brief flight restrictions for the second half of the day as cells slowly travel near a TAF location. Low vsbys are progged to be contained to the higher terrain late tonight into Saturday morning. Winds will remain generally light through the valid TAF period outside of any shower or storm progged for this afternoon and evening. FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 12Z SATURDAY... FORECAST CONFIDENCE: Medium. ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: Development of showers and storms this afternoon may vary from the forecast. EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION: H = HIGH: TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS. L = LOW: TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. UTC 1HRLY 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 EDT 1HRLY 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 CRW CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H HTS CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H BKW CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H EKN CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H PKB CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H CKB CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H AFTER 12Z SATURDAY... IFR conditions possible in afternoon and evening thunderstorms, and early morning fog, through Monday.-- End Changed Discussion --&& .RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...-- Changed Discussion --WV...Heat Advisory until 8 PM EDT this evening for WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>031. Flood Watch from 2 PM EDT this afternoon through this evening for WVZ020-027>032-039-040-515>526. OH...Heat Advisory until 8 PM EDT this evening for OHZ066-067-075- 076-083>087. KY...Heat Advisory until 8 PM EDT this evening for KYZ101>103-105. VA...None.-- End Changed Discussion --&& $$ SYNOPSIS...MEK/JZ NEAR TERM...MEK/ARJ SHORT TERM...JZ LONG TERM...JZ AVIATION...MEK