Area Forecast Discussion
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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Dodge City KS
333 AM CDT Sun Sep 22 2024

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Moderate to locally heavy rainfall will continue across the
  southeast half of the area through mid morning.

- Cloudy and much cooler with a few showers in the afternoon.

- Slight chances for precipitation returns around Monday
  overnight and Tuesday


&&

.DISCUSSION...
Issued at 325 AM CDT Sun Sep 22 2024


The last of the more organized shower and thunderstorm bands is
overspreading the area at this time. Isolated areas of 1-3
in/hr rainfall rates ares evident in the MRMS data, however the
rain is reasonably progressing eastward. Some runoff and ponding
of water may be found this morning across the southeast
counties, particularly from Ashland to Pratt and Medicine Lodge,
as the rains move over areas that already received between
about one and two inches last evening.

An upper low will lift from Colorado to around the Nebraska and
Kansas state line Today, while attendant mid to upper jet
stretching from northeast NM across the DDC area and into
eastern NE this morning, becomes positioned from the Panhandles
into northern MO by late Today  leaving a subsident shortwave
ridge over western Kansas by this evening. As the rains end
Today, cloudy and cool conditions will be leftover, as well as light
winds. The deterministic models show and transient 1019 hPa
surface anticyclone moving from eastern CO Today, into an
elongated surface ridge over eastern Kansas by Monday.

Some potential for dynamic lift resulting in showers is
possible Monday and Monday night/early Tuesday as the nose of
the northern stream jet pushes across the northern and central
High Plains  shown in the deterministic Canadian/EC/GFS. With
respect to this, the GFS/EC ensemble means are relatively dry,
but so show some potential for minimal 24 hour QPF totals over
any period in the coming days which still leaves low confidence
for any appreciable precipitation in the short to medium range.
Beyond Tuesday, the synoptic pattern shifts to slowly eastward
propagating amplified ridge from the desert southwest into the
northern High Plains. Alot of uncertainty in the latter half of
the week right now revolves around the possibility of a deep
cutoff low developing somewhere in the Mississippi valley area
or even farther west. Deterministic Global models are
inconsistent with respect to the low level thermal fields over
western Kansas Wednesday -Friday with outcomes ranging from 14
to 23 deg C for 850 temps over western Kansas  resulting from
surface wind trajectories and clouds cover. The NBM input 25th
to 75th percentile highs on these days vary from highs around 70
degrees in the cooler solutions to low 80s on the warmer
pattern.

&&

.AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z MONDAY/...
Issued at 1157 PM CDT Sat Sep 21 2024

A broad swath of rain with scattered thunderstorms will continue
southeast of DDC over the next few hours, and the nest round of
showers and thunderstorms prepared to lift out of the southern
high plains for the overnight. Ceilings of 1000-1500ft commonly
with the precipitation is anticipated with conditional
visibility not all that low  conditional visibility at LBL has
about a 40% probability of being below 5sm through 10z this
morning.

&&

.DDC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.

&&

$$

DISCUSSION...Russell
AVIATION...Russell