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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
253 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

...New LONG TERM...

.SHORT TERM...
(This evening through Monday)
Issued at 142 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

Most of the state of Texas is between the 500mb subtropical ridge
across northwest Mexico and the 500mb ridge along the middle
Atlantic United States coastline. This will provide a shear axis
across the central and eastern portions of the state tonight into
Monday. The question tonight into early Mon morning is whether any
convection will develop across west Texas tonight and propagate into
portions of west central Texas similar to last night. The latest
HRRR does prog some thunderstorms developing across west Texas
this evening and outflow from this convection may provide a focus
for showers and thunderstorms to develop across portions of the
northern Edwards Plateau late tonight into early Monday morning.
Will mention a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms across
southwest portions of the CWA tonight into early Monday as a
result. Breezy conditions are expected to prevail tonight into
Monday as the pressure gradient remains relatively strong across
west Texas. Temperatures will continue to remain above normal
Monday afternoon.

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.LONG TERM...
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(Monday night through next Sunday)
Issued at 157 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

The focus for the long term continues to be the possibility of
heavy rainfall across parts of the area in the Wednesday through
Friday timeframe but especially on Thursday. Mainly dry conditions
will persist on Tuesday and most of Wednesday although we could
see some scattered showers and thunderstorms begin to spread into
our southeastern counties during the afternoon on Wednesday.

We continue to monitor a tropical disturbance in the southwestern
Gulf of Mexico which now has a 70% chance of developing into a
tropical depression or tropical storm. Whatever ultimately
develops will likely move across northern Mexico or south Texas
around the middle of the week. Deep easterly flow around this
system will advect abundant Gulf moisture into the region, with
precipitable water values increasing to as high 1.8-2.0 inches.
More widespread showers and thunderstorms are possible on
Thursday especially south of I-20 as this tropical moisture begins
to spread into the region. There are still differences amongst
the operational guidance regarding rainfall amounts- the ECMWF
continues to hold a stronger ridge over the area shunting most of
the tropical moisture to the south while the GFS shows upper
level troughing over the area and thus higher rainfall amounts.
Given the uncertainty in the ultimate evolution/track of the Gulf
system and subsequent rainfall amounts for our area will continue
to stick with the model blend for now which shows a 40-50% chance
of PoPs in the Thursday/Friday time frame. Please stay tuned as
we get a better handle on this potential Gulf of Mexico
disturbance and continue to refine rainfall amounts.

With the increasing rain chances and expected cloud cover
temperatures will be much cooler after Tuesday. Highs on Wednesday
though Friday will be mainly in the 80s, with overnight lows in
the 60s. Drier and warmer conditions will return for next weekend
as upper level ridging builds back into the region.
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.AVIATION...
(18Z TAFS)
Issued at 1206 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2024

Satellite and radar images as well as surface observations
indicate isolated to scattered convection across portions of Coke
County early this afternoon. Otherwise...skies were mostly clear
across the rest of the CWA except across portions of the northwest
Hill Country and the Heartland where mid level clouds continue to
develop. Ceilings were near 3200ft at KBBD. Expect MVFR conditions
with isolated showers/thunderstorms across portions of the Concho
Valley this afternoon. Otherwise...expect VFR conditions to
prevail across west central Texas the rest of the afternoon into
this evening as the weak 500mb shortwave trough across northwest
Texas moves eastward and subsidence increases across the CWA with
northwest flow aloft.

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.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Abilene     74  94  73  92 /   0   0   0   0
San Angelo  74  99  74  98 /   0   0   0   0
Junction    74  97  74  95 /   0   0   0   0
Brownwood   74  91  73  89 /   0   0   0   0
Sweetwater  74  97  73  94 /   0   0   0   0
Ozona       73  96  72  95 /  20  20   0   0
Brady       73  92  73  89 /   0   0   0   0

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.SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.
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SHORT TERM...61
LONG TERM....42
AVIATION...61