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AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
National Weather Service Jackson KY
1153 AM EDT Sun Jun 9 2024

.KEY MESSAGES...

- A cold front brings rain chances to eastern Kentucky starting
  early this morning and running through the day. This will end
  from north to south during the afternoon as the front settles
  south of the state.

- Cooler air will be reinforced across the region early this
  week, before temperatures modify back to above normal by the end
  of the period.

&&

.UPDATE...
Issued at 1152 AM EDT SUN JUN 9 2024

A cold front is gradually sagging south of the OH River and into
northern portions of eastern KY. Radar and satellite indicated
that the front is near the Interstate 64 corridor and gradually
slipping south of the interstate. Convection is occurring over
portions of western into Central KY while some recent shower
development has occurred near Lake Cumberland where cumulus is a
bit more agitated ahead of the front. Recent CAM runs have not
handled the convection that is working into central KY all that
well. The greater instability is forecast to reside southwest and
south of the area, with areas nearer to the TN border should have
MLCAPE climb to around 500 J/kg or slightly higher with effective
shear reaching 30 to 40KT. This could support some organized
convection near the TN border and points south and for a time in
the afternoon and the track and evolution of convection nearing
the I 65 corridor and Bowling Green area will be monitored for
possible further refinement of pops. For now areas near and north
of the Mtn Parkway will have drier air arriving as the front slips
south this afternoon so pops were lowered there. There remains
uncertainty on how far south the gradient will need to be though
areas right along the TN border will have the best chance for
thunderstorms.


UPDATE Issued at 735 AM EDT SUN JUN 9 2024

No big changes to the forecast with just the inclusion of the
latest obs and trends for the T/Td/Sky grids with this update
along with a tweaking of the near term PoPs per the latest radar
images. These minor adjustments have been sent to the NDFD and
web servers.

&&

.SHORT TERM...(Today through Monday)
Issued at 455 AM EDT SUN JUN 9 2024

08Z sfc analysis shows high pressure now off to the east of
Kentucky while an area of low pressure is passing off to the
northeast. A cold front from this is starting to settle south into
Kentucky from the north. At the same time, ahead of this
boundary, a healthy cluster of storms is moving into central
Tennessee with its northern fringe riding east through south
central Kentucky. Thicker clouds have now spread into eastern
Kentucky ahead of those southern storms. These clouds kept
temperatures more uniform across the area early this morning after
we saw a bit more terrain based drop off during the evening.
Specifically, readings are generally from the mid 60s to lower
70s. Meanwhile, amid mostly light winds, dewpoints are in the
upper 50s to lower and mid 60s. The clouds also have kept most of
any fog at bay through the night.

The models, and their individual ensemble suites, remain in good
agreement aloft through the short term portion of the forecast.
They all depict a large 5h low north-northeast of Kentucky
dropping through the Ohio Valley and thereby tightening up the
northwest mid level flow over the region. Within this flow, an
impulse runs through the Tennessee Valley today while a more
substantial one pushes south from the Ohio Valley. This latter one
brings height falls and keeps more robust packets of energy
moving through the JKL CWA into Monday before the 5h trough axis
crosses this part of the state by that evening. The model spread
continues to be small enough that the NBM was used as the starting
point for the short term grids along with the incorporation of
the CAMs` details for PoPs today.

Sensible weather features a decent chance for showers and a few
thunderstorms through the area today, though the highest
probabilities for both will be found for the southern half of
eastern Kentucky. The southward movement of the cold front will
bring an end to the precipitation threat from north to south
through the JKL CWA during the afternoon. Only a small sliver of
southeast Kentucky will see a chance for showers after 00Z Monday.
Drier air, post frontal, will mean more in the way of ridge to
valley temperature differences tonight along with a potential for
fog in the valleys and places that manage to see the better rain
today. For Monday, we will stay dry even though 5h heights will be
falling as the northeast trough bottoms out nearby with ample
energy flowing above. This will make for rather cloudy skies and
cooler than normal afternoon temperatures to start the work week.

The main changes to the NBM starting point consisted of adjusting
the NBM PoPs to include CAMs details for the shower and storm
chances through the day. The temperatures from the NBM were
tweaked tonight in order to represent better terrain detail in a
drying wx regime.

.LONG TERM...(Monday night through Saturday)
Issued at 444 AM EDT SUN JUN 9 2024

The extended period will start off with a large trough of low
pressure aloft spinning in place over the northeastern CONUS. A
north to south elongated narrow ridge of high pressure will be in
place from south central Canada southward into the central and
southern Plains to start things off. Another trough of low pressure
is forecast to be moving across western Canada into central Canada,
with weak ridging coming onshore in the Pacific Northwest at the
same time. Another system is expected to settle over Florida, and
more or less remain in place there through next weekend. As the
period progresses, the Plains ridging is forecast to drift eastward
and slowly move through the Great Lakes and Ohio and Tennessee
Valley regions, bringing dry and warm weather to those areas. In
fact, most of the extended should be dry, with a few showers and
storms possible along the Virginia border and our far northern
counties Friday and Saturday, as troughs of low pressure move by to
our south and north. Our next decent chance of rail will likely not
arrive until next Sunday, when another area of low pressure moving
by to our south pushes just far enough northward to allow isolated
to scattered showers and storms to spread into our forecast area
from the south.

After starting off the period with near normal temperatures in the
upper 70s on Tuesday, a major warm up is in store for the remainder
of the period. With persistent high pressure in place over the
region, we will see a steady northward flux of warm and muggy air
off the Gulf of Mexico into the area, which will bring much warmer
than normal temperatures into the picture. Daily highs from
Wednesday through Sunday look to max out in the mid 80s to lower
90s, as winds shift mainly to the south and southwest, and we
experience ample sunshine under mostly clear skies along with strong
subsidence warming.

With the weather expected to be mostly calm in the extended, there
are currently no concerns from any shower or storm activity we
experience. With much warmer than normal temperatures expected, heat
index values could rise to the point of creating some minor
discomfort for anyone engaging in strenuous outdoor activities this
coming week, but nothing more.

&&

.AVIATION...(For the 12Z TAFS through 12Z Monday morning)
ISSUED AT 745 AM EDT SUN JUN 9 2024

Extensive cloudiness will continue this morning with lower cigs
working in ahead of a cold front dropping south. Showers and a
stray thunderstorm will affect mainly southern parts of the area
this morning. KLOZ and KSME stand the best chance of being
impacted by this activity, with lesser chances at the other TAF
sites through the day. As a result, VFR conditions will quickly
yield to MVFR CIGs, and perhaps a period of IFR, between 14 and
20Z. Thereafter, VFR conditions will move in and stay through the
upcoming night - though some river valley fog is also expected.
Light and variable winds are expected through the morning before
becoming west and then northwest at generally 10 kts or less this
afternoon - returning to light and variable after sunset.

&&

.JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

$$

UPDATE...JP
SHORT TERM...GREIF
LONG TERM...AR
AVIATION...GREIF