Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Omaha/Valley, NE
Issued by NWS Omaha/Valley, NE
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957 FXUS63 KOAX 071948 AFDOAX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE 248 PM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 .KEY MESSAGES... - Severe thunderstorms will develop (95% chance) in northern Nebraska by mid to late afternoon, and move across parts of eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa through late tonight. - The strongest storms may produce areas of significant damaging wind and hail, flash flooding, and a lesser-but-non- zero chance for a tornado. The greatest potential for significant severe weather is southwest of a line from Oneill to Columbus to Syracuse to Nebraska City. - There is another chance for showers or a storm late Saturday, and another low (20-30%) chance for storms on Monday night into Tuesday. - The large scale weather pattern becomes increasingly favorable for a few rounds of strong to severe storms late next week into the weekend. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 248 PM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 Skies are partly cloudy this afternoon with a weak boundary bisecting the northern and southern half of our area around the Platte River. There is greater cloud cover north of the boundary and winds are more easterly, while south of the boundary winds are generally out of the south or southeast and skies are more clear. We`re watching an upper-level shortwave currently visible in water vapor imagery over western South Dakota, approaching our are. We`re already seeing storms out near Valentine associated with this wave and expect additional development around and ahead of these storms over the next few hours. CAPE values in north-central Nebraska with these storms are estimated to be around 2500+ J/kg with effective bulk shear around 50+ kt. Low- level shear (0-1 km) is less impressive, only around 11-12 kt. These environmental parameters indicate a significant hail and wind threat initially with a lesser tornado threat. CAMs show these storms continuing to develop and move along the stationary boundary southeastward toward Ord, Grand Island, and possibly as far east as Columbus. Trends have taken the strongest of the storms farther west, hopefully taking them out of northeast Nebraska completely. Southeast Nebraska isn`t looking as lucky with the eastern extent of the corridor of strong storms moving through Lincoln to Peru, NE. As storms start to move into southeast Nebraska, they will tap into an incredibly moist air mass with PWAT values possibly approaching 1.9 inches, which would be a record for June 7th if true. This will make these storms very efficient rain producers, despite the speed of the storms, so they could very well put down a very quick 1-2 inches of rainfall, and if they stall at all, expect flash flooding to quickly become a concern. The speed of this system is really our only saving grace here as far as flash flooding potential. The storms should be out of our area by 1-2 AM tonight, with the cold front moving through actually a few hours later. We could see some low clouds spread across the area Saturday morning which will hang around until early afternoon. This will keep temperatures cooler on Saturday with afternoon highs only in the mid 70s across much of our area. Another shortwave will bring low chances for storms to far southeast Nebraska overnight Saturday night, but better chances will be south of our area. Temperatures will stay mild on Sunday and Monday with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s and mostly sunny skies. Our next widespread chance for showers and storms will be Monday night as we see the breakdown of the upper-level ridge over the Inter-Mountain West with a strong trough passing to our north. The upper-air pattern flips toward the end of the week with a high likelihood of a large-scale trough building into the western CONUS and a series of short wave troughs ejecting into the Plains. Boundary layer moisture will increase and this is a favorable setup for increasing potential for rounds of severe weather by next weekend into the following week. Most model guidance keeps the heart of the jet stream north of the local area, but embedded waves of enhanced mid/upper winds will drive severe potential. There is plenty of time to watch this unfold, but certainly appears to be a signal for an active weather period. && .AVIATION /18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z SATURDAY/... Issued at 1233 PM CDT Fri Jun 7 2024 VFR conditions expected through this afternoon with winds out of the southeast. Storms are expected to develop later this afternoon over north-central Nebraska and track southeast across eastern Nebraska this evening. Cigs with storms should stay VFR, but winds could get as high as 70+ kt on the leading edge of the strongest storms out of the northwest. Large hail and tornadoes are also possible. Once storms move through, winds will return back to the southeast for a period until the front moves through around 09 - 12Z, when winds shift to northwesterly. This front will also bring in a 50-60% chance of MVFR cigs around 1500 ft, but possibly as low as 700 ft (20% chance). MVFR cigs should break up and lift around 16-18Z on Saturday. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...None. IA...None. && $$ DISCUSSION...McCoy AVIATION...McCoy