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840 AWUS01 KWNH 121802 FFGMPD MAZ000-NHZ000-VTZ000-CTZ000-NYZ000-NJZ000-PAZ000-130000- Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0657 NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 201 PM EDT Sat Jul 12 2025 Areas affected...Northeast PA...Central/Eastern NY...Central/Southern VT...Western MA Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding possible Valid 121800Z - 130000Z SUMMARY...Scattered slow-moving showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall rates are expected going through the early evening hours. Isolated areas of flash flooding will be possible over the next several hours. DISCUSSION...The latest GOES-E visible satellite imagery shows a remnant MCV gradually drifting east across areas of central NY, and this energy will be interacting with a very moist and unstable airmass across the interior of the Northeast that will be conducive for scattered areas of slow-moving showers and thunderstorms going through the early evening hours. MLCAPE values of 1000 to 1500+ J/kg are in place from northeast PA through central/eastern NY and into areas of southern VT and western MA. PWs across the region are running on the order of 1.5 to 2 standard deviations above normal, and the combination of these two parameters should favor convective cells being capable of producing rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inches/hour. A combination of the aforementioned vort energy along with localized orographic ascent near areas of higher terrain will favor some expansion of convective activity over the next several hours, but the convective cells will be embedded within rather weak steering flow, and any terrain-induced circulations may tend to favor some cells becoming orographically anchored. This will support some localized storm total rainfall amounts going through early this evening of 2 to 4 inches which is supported by the 12Z HREF guidance. This will support a concern for isolated areas of flash flooding. Orrison ...Please see www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov for graphic product... ATTN...WFO...ALY...BGM...BOX...BTV...CTP...GYX...OKX...PHI... ATTN...RFC...RHA...TAR...NWC... LAT...LON 44337336 44137245 43337233 42707245 42077292 41357439 40617568 40807693 41587714 42827640 43357537 44097422