Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Issued by NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
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746 FXUS64 KEWX 270527 AAA AFDEWX Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 1227 AM CDT Thu Jun 27 2024 ...New AVIATION (06Z TAFS)... .SHORT TERM... (Tonight through Thursday night) Issued at 215 PM CDT Wed Jun 26 2024 The upper level ridge remains centered northwest of the area this afternoon. Surface high pressure centered over the Gulf is producing southeasterly winds across South Central Texas. A warm, moist airmass remains in place. Temperatures are in the upper 80s and lower 90s and dewpoints are in the upper 60s to middle 70s. Heat indices range from the middle 90s to 107. A Heat Advisory remains in effect this afternoon for the I-35 Corridor and Coastal Plains. There is a line of thunderstorms over northeastern TX moving toward the south. Most of the hi-res models keep these storms east of our CWA as it approaches later this evening, but there are a couple of solutions that bring some storms into our eastern counties. The solutions that keep this activity east of us seem more likely to us and we have left out any mention of convection this evening. The overall weather pattern will not change significantly during the short term. Tonight will be partly to mostly cloudy and temperatures will be warm. Lows Thursday morning will be about the same as this morning. Daytime Thursday will see a bit less cloudiness and temperatures will be a couple of degrees warmer than today. Most places will still be in the middle to upper 90s with triple digits along the Rio Grande. Dewpoints Thursday afternoon will be in the 70s again sending heat indices to 105 to 110 and we have issued a Heat Advisory for the I-35 Corridor and Coastal Plains. Thursday night should be a near repeat of tonight. && .LONG TERM... (Friday through Wednesday) Issued at 215 PM CDT Wed Jun 26 2024 The 500 mb heights may lower a tad entering Friday as the mid-level ridge repositions while a weak inverted trough also advances into northern portions of coastal Mexico and Deep South Texas. This may help to promote a few tropical showers and/or isolated sea breeze convection to advance inland into our southeastern most coastal plain counties. Elsewhere, conditions are to remain hot and humid under partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies and with a rain free forecast. The mid-level ridge centered over North Texas towards the Arklatex region will then restrengthen through the weekend into the 595 to 598 dm range. The center of that ridge then slowly slides eastward early to middle of next week. With our region under the influence of this ridge, it`s subsidence will keep area rain chances nil. The only exception may be Sunday across our southern most locations as the far northern periphery of moisture associated with a tropical wave advancing across the western Caribbean through the Bay of Campeche and into northern Mexico. Given the model trends and the typical setup with the stronger ridging to the north, have elected to lower PoPs into the slight category compared to the latest NBM output. The afternoon high temperatures start to gradually nudge upwards later this weekend and towards the middle of next week as the mid- level ridge strengthens. However, with greater diurnal mixing and drying soil moistures, the surface dew points will likely start mixing out more efficiently through each afternoon. Despite the higher afternoon daytime highs, including locations topping out around or above 100 degrees, could see the heat indices remain of near or perhaps lower than the peak heat indices seen today or recently with those very humid dew point values. Overnight lows should become slightly more seasonable as well with mostly clear skies trending more often into the overnight hours with the lower dew points persisting through the evening hours. && .AVIATION... (06Z TAFS) Issued at 1214 AM CDT Thu Jun 27 2024 VFR CIGS can be expected through the period at AUS and DRT, with a brief round of MVFR CIGS at SAT and SSF. Confidence is low in these MVFR ceilings however, so opted to bump about 2000 ft at SAT and SSF. Overall, winds should remain less than 10 kts, but some gusts up to 20kts are possible at DRT as early as late morning Thursday. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Austin Camp Mabry 98 79 98 80 / 0 0 0 0 Austin Bergstrom Intl Airport 98 76 97 79 / 0 0 0 0 New Braunfels Muni Airport 98 76 98 79 / 0 0 10 0 Burnet Muni Airport 98 77 97 79 / 0 0 0 0 Del Rio Intl Airport 102 81 103 82 / 0 0 0 0 Georgetown Muni Airport 98 77 97 78 / 0 0 0 0 Hondo Muni Airport 98 77 98 79 / 0 0 0 0 San Marcos Muni Airport 98 76 97 77 / 0 0 10 0 La Grange - Fayette Regional 96 78 95 79 / 0 0 10 0 San Antonio Intl Airport 98 78 97 80 / 0 0 10 0 Stinson Muni Airport 99 78 98 80 / 0 0 10 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Heat Advisory from 1 PM this afternoon to 7 PM CDT this evening for Atascosa-Bastrop-Bexar-Caldwell-Comal-De Witt-Fayette-Frio-Gonzales- Guadalupe-Hays-Karnes-Lavaca-Lee-Travis-Williamson-Wilson. && $$ Short-Term...Platt Long-Term...03 Aviation...MMM