Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS St. Louis, MO
Issued by NWS St. Louis, MO
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150 FXUS63 KLSX 080750 AFDLSX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Saint Louis MO 250 AM CDT Sat Jun 8 2024 .KEY MESSAGES... - Showers and isolated thunderstorms will continue across the region this morning, exiting the area around noon. Strong to severe storms are not anticipated this morning. - Another round of thunderstorms is expected late this afternoon and evening, and these thunderstorms will be capable of isolated instances of damaging wind gusts and large hail. There remains uncertainly in where exactly these storms will form. - Depending on where exactly storms this evening form and track tonight, locally heavy rainfall of up to 3-5" is possible. This may lead to a Flash Flood threat, primarily across portions of central and southeastern Missouri where a Flood Watch is now in effect. && .SHORT TERM... (Through Sunday Night) Issued at 247 AM CDT Sat Jun 8 2024 The latest regional radar imagery shows a decaying MCS moving through portions of western Missouri. This MCS is outrunning the unstable airmass it formed in, so the weakening trend of the system is expected to continue as it approaches and then moves through the CWA during the morning hours. While severe weather is not expected with this MCS, it will be capable of locally heavy rainfall, with ponding on roadways and full road-side ditches possible this morning. However, its progressive nature is expected to limit a more serious flood threat. This MCS is expected to produce an outflow boundary that may linger through the day somewhere across southern Missouri. South of this outflow boundary, deterministic guidance and the 00z HREF shows approximately 3,000 J/kg of SBCAPE among 30-40 kts of 0-6 km bulk shear. As a subtle shortwave and surface low approach the CWA late this afternoon and early this evening during peak heating, convection is expected to develop along the boundary around 6pm. Given the degree of instability and shear, multicell thunderstorms with occasional supercellular structures are expected through the evening, with the primary threats being damaging wind gusts and large hail. Given the parallel orientation of the shear vectors relative to the outflow boundary, upscale growth to line segments is expected, which would lead to primarily a damaging wind threat. Low- level shear and hodographs remain weak through the evening, so barring a discrete supercell that can latch onto the boundary, the threat for tornadoes looks very low at this time. At this lead time, hi-res guidance still shows differing solutions for the placement of the boundary and thusly where storms will initiate. A more northern solution (e.g., the 00z HRRR) would have convection forming across central and southeastern Missouri and tracking southeast through the evening. A more southern solution (e.g., the 00z NAM Nest) would have convection forming mostly across south-central and far southeastern Missouri mostly outside of the CWA. Tonight, the low-level jet is expected to ramp up and interact with the outflow boundary, causing convection to become increasingly widespread and train along the boundary. This will pose a threat of flooding where this occurs, as the 00z HREF has locally heavy rainfall of 3-5" in locations across portions of south-central and southeastern Missouri. Therefore, a Flood Watch has been issued for portions of the area. If the boundary ends up being further south, the threat of flooding would shift south as well. Sunday, a cold front will push southward through the CWA as an upper- level trough deepens over the eastern CONUS. This will push rain chances southward through the morning, with much of the CWA seeing dry conditions by the afternoon. Deep northerly to northwesterly flow will begin advecting a cooler airmass into the CWA that will combine with cloud cover in some areas to keep temperatures roughly 5-10 degrees below climatological normals Sunday afternoon into Sunday night. Elmore && .LONG TERM... (Sunday Night through Friday) Issued at 247 AM CDT Sat Jun 8 2024 At the start of the period on Monday, deterministic and ensemble guidance consensus has increased on that the axis of the upper-level trough will swing through the region as deep northwesterly flow sets up over the Middle Mississippi Valley and a shortwave remains stalled over south-central Canada. As a result, high pressure at the surface will spread into the Great Plains and Midwest, leading a calm, cool day across the CWA. Confidence is high that this will be the coolest day of the extended forecast period, with the 75th percentile of ensemble guidance running about 5 degrees cooler than climatological normals. Upper-level ridging quickly builds into the Midwest as the trough departs eastward on Tuesday per ensemble clusters. As a result, the surface high will shift eastward, returning southerly low to mid- level flow to the CWA. This will advect more seasonable air into the CWA as we approach the middle of next week. While this ridge will quickly transition eastward, guidance consensus is that another ridge centered over the southwestern CONUS will strengthen and expand, allowing for southerly flow to remain over the CWA. Ensembles show the resulting temperatures climbing back above normal (upper 80s - low 90s) by the end of the week, with narrow ensemble spread increasing confidence in this return of more summer-like weather. Elmore && .AVIATION... (For the 06z TAFs through 06z Saturday Night) Issued at 1055 PM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 A shower and thunderstorm complex currently from northwest Missouri to northeast Kansas will continue east-southeastward across the area overnight and exit by mid-morning on Saturday. MVFR visibilities will accompany these showers and thunderstorms as well as low VFR ceilings at all terminals except KUIN where MVFR ceilings are forecasted. It is possible that ceilings could lower to MVFR ceilings as the thunderstorms exit at KCOU, KJEF, and the St. Louis Metro terminals, however confidence remains lower in this occurrence. There is another chance for showers and thunderstorms late Saturday afternoon and evening at all terminals except KUIN. There is uncertainty if there will be direct impacts to terminals and the timing of any convection, thus the VCTS. Winds will gradually shift through the TAF period from southerly to westerly to northerly as a warm front sets up across portions of southern Missouri on Saturday. MMG/Glass && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...Flood Watch from this evening through Sunday afternoon for Cole MO-Crawford MO-Franklin MO-Gasconade MO-Iron MO-Madison MO- Moniteau MO-Osage MO-Reynolds MO-Saint Francois MO- Washington MO. IL...None. && $$ WFO LSX