Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Huntsville, AL
Issued by NWS Huntsville, AL
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173 FXUS64 KHUN 250013 AFDHUN Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Huntsville AL 713 PM CDT Fri May 24 2024 ...New AVIATION... .NEAR TERM... (Tonight) Issued at 329 PM CDT Fri May 24 2024 A convective complex that earlier brought measurable rainfall across most of the Tennessee Valley into the early afternoon was fading as remnant showers headed to the ENE. Rainfall amounts from the complex ranged from a few hundreths of an inch, to around an inch over parts of NW Alabama. Because of earlier extensive cloud cover, mid afternoon temperatures were only in the low/mid 70s. There were more breaks in the cloud deck with the departure of showers. Thus temperatures may creep up a few more degrees before the late afternoon and top out in the upper 70s and lower 80s. From the late afternoon into the evening, there is a slim chance that more showers/thunderstorms could form in a still unstable environment. But odds of that remain on the low side. But what is more eye catching is an area of convection firing over the IA-MO- IL region. This activity per short term guidance should blossom this evening while heading to the SE. Per timing from the HRRR, RAP, ARW, NAM, has these showers moving in from the NW, reaching our NW and maybe Tennessee counties before daybreak Saturday. && .SHORT TERM... (Saturday through Monday) Issued at 329 PM CDT Fri May 24 2024 This convection should fade in intensity a few hours after sunrise as it moves to the SE. The rest of the day Sat for the most part looks to be dry. That said, this area is in a conditionally unstable environment, with daytime heating and steeper lapse rates making a regeneration of afternoon showers and storms not a zero chance. Staying with a dry forecast, muggy conditions are expected to close out the week with highs rising into the mid/upper 80s, and lows that night in the mid/upper 60s. Sunday should be even warmer with highs topping out around 90, with marginal shower and thunderstorm development possible. Things look to change more dramatically Sunday night, as a system now moving across central California heads rapidly to the east. This system as it traverses the CONUS will help develop a synoptic low near the Front Range on Sat, with this low moving to the Great Lakes. As it nears the Great Lakes on Mon, it will bring a cold front towards this area. Lift occurring east of this boundary and our region in an unstable environment will be favorable for the development of more organized convection. A few items to note with this system. It appears to be taking a more northward track per successive runs and was a bit slower. IF this trend continues, it would help lower an overall severe threat. A Slight Risk that this area is delineated in the Day-3 outlook has shifted a bit to the north. Also a greater distance from the parent low would help in this regard. Despite those items, the timing of the strongest forcing will be in the late night into Monday morning. CAPE values in the 1000-2000 J/kg and helicity values from 100-200 m/s and deep shear in the 40-55kt would support all modes of severe weather, with damaging wind gusts the main threat. A chance of showers and storms should continue into Monday, as the main front finally moves in a NW-SE manner across the area. && .LONG TERM... (Monday night through Thursday) Issued at 247 AM CDT Fri May 24 2024 A broader troughing pattern sets up Monday night for the eastern CONUS and will persist through the remainder of next week. While our next chance at storms is a lower end potential on Wednesday, the pattern overall looks to be drier with temperatures closer to daily average values in the low to mid 80s. && .AVIATION... (00Z TAFS) Issued at 713 PM CDT Fri May 24 2024 VFR conditions are currently observed at the terminals, featuring sct mid/high-lvl clouds and a SSE flow of 5-10 kts. Although we will be monitoring convective trends across northern MS for potential impacts later this evening at MSL, present indications are that small clusters of storms to the south of Memphis should progress southeastward and weaken btwn 0-3Z. Light BR/FG may also develop in a few locations later this evening (if winds diminish sufficiently and skies remain partially clear), but we have not included vsby reductions in the TAFs (due to fog) at this point. During the early morning hours, storms currently in progress across eastern MO/western IL are predicted to grow into a forward propagating MCS that should track southeastward through northern AL in the hours around sunrise. Due to increasing confidence in this scenario, we have introduced PROB30 groups for MVFR cigs/vsby at MSL/9-14Z and HSV/10-15Z. VFR conditions will return late Saturday morning, with the caveat that additional but more isolated afternoon TSRA may redevelop across the region invof a differential heating boundary in the wake of the morning MCS. && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...None. TN...None. && $$ NEAR TERM...RSB SHORT TERM...RSB LONG TERM...30 AVIATION...70/DD