724
FXUS64 KSHV 302006
AFDSHV

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
306 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024

...New SHORT TERM, LONG TERM...

.SHORT TERM...
(This evening through Wednesday Night)
Issued at 303 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024

The latest water vapor imagery indicates a rather broad area of
mid and upper level dry air from the Southern Plains into the
Southeast CONUS. With a surface ridge moving farther east tonight
while a lee surface trough strengthens over the High Plains, low-
level moisture will begin to gradually increase. This should
result in more low clouds during the early morning hours of
Wednesday. Patchy fog will also be possible but current thinking
is increased surface wind speeds and increased low-level cloud
cover may limit the potential for dense fog as compared to Tuesday
morning.

A weak disturbance in the zonal flow aloft will provide the
potential for at least a isolated showers or thunderstorms on
Wednesday. The first opportunity will be limited to portions of
Southeast Oklahoma and extreme Northeast Texas Wednesday morning.
However, rain chances will spread southward during the afternoon.
There may be a brief lull in the rain chances early Wednesday
evening, but the flow aloft will quickly become more southwesterly
and will amplify resulting in a rapid increase in deep layer
moisture. A broad area of showers and thunderstorms are expected
to develop from Kansas southward into Texas ahead of a cold
front and dryline. These storms should move into the area after
midnight Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Strong large scale
forcing and abundant deep layer moisture may result in locally
heavy rainfall, especially across Deep East Texas. Severe weather
chances appear low at this time.

CN

&&

.LONG TERM...
(Thursday through next Monday)
Issued at 303 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024

Widespread showers and thunderstorms should be ongoing Thursday
morning, especially across Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas,
East Texas, and portions of Western Louisiana. Vertical ascent is
expected to be quite strong during the day Thursday as a shortwave
trough moves east-northeast across the forecast area. Combined
with precipitable water values over 2 inches, locally heavy
rainfall is likely, particularly south of Interstate 20 across
East Texas and into Western Louisiana. Thursday`s convection is
expected to be well ahead of the cold front, and more showers and
thunderstorms are likely as the front moves into the area on
Friday before stalling north of Interstate 20. The heaviest
rainfall rates are generally expected on Thursday, but the threat
of heavy rain should finally diminish Friday afternoon as the
front begins lifting back northward into Oklahoma and Arkansas.

The remainder of the long-term forecast will remain quite
unsettled. Southwesterly flow aloft will persist and a series of
weak perturbations in the flow will keep chances for scattered
showers and thunderstorms in the forecast Friday and Saturday.
Rain chances may increase across the northwest half of the area on
Sunday as a stronger shortwave trough lifts northeast across Texas
and Oklahoma. Deep southerly flow will provide plenty of warm air
advection and moisture to fuel convection.

Despite the persistent rain chances, during the weekend, the
strong warm air advection will keep a warming trend in place.
Daytime high temperatures should be well into the 80s and possibly
into the lower 90s early next week. With the rainfall and wet
soils, very humid conditions can be expected to accompany the
heat.

CN

&&

.AVIATION...
(18Z TAFS)
Issued at 1247 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024

For the ArkLaTex terminals, MVFR at LA sites, but all others have
finally improved. High pressure still has toe hold at KAEX with
moisture extending NW along the Red River valley into KSHV. Very
light/calm wind E of I-49, but return flow S/SE is into E TX with
mid 80s already. We should dry the soil much today and BR tmrw
will be much shorter lived with more of a low cloud event likely
than ground FG. We will trend back to p.m. convection to end the
work week and this wknd as cold fronts park over AR Fri and Mon.
/24/

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SHV  63  87  70  78 /   0  10  20  90
MLU  62  87  66  80 /   0   0  10  60
DEQ  62  85  64  75 /   0  10  30  90
TXK  64  85  68  77 /   0  10  30  90
ELD  61  86  64  77 /   0   0  10  70
TYR  66  85  68  79 /   0  30  60  90
GGG  65  85  68  78 /   0  30  40  90
LFK  65  85  69  81 /   0  40  30  70

&&

.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...None.
LA...None.
OK...None.
TX...None.
&&

$$

SHORT TERM...09
LONG TERM....09
AVIATION...24