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767 FXUS61 KILN 250539 AFDILN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION National Weather Service Wilmington OH 139 AM EDT Tue Jun 25 2024 .SYNOPSIS... A brief respite in the heat and humidity today, before warmer and more humid air quickly builds back into the region on Tuesday. Chance for storms returns Tuesday and increases Wednesday ahead of the next cold front. Drier and cooler conditions will then return for the last part of the workweek before heat and humidity build back for this weekend. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM THIS MORNING/... Quiescent night ahead. Cumulus have pretty much dissipated. Could see some mid clouds spread into the northwest before daybreak from upstream storms. Light winds will become southerly. Lows will be in the 60s with coolest readings in the east. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM THIS MORNING THROUGH 6 PM WEDNESDAY/... Progressive mid level shortwave to track thru the Great Lakes Tuesday. Moisture to return in response to low level jet with an increase in higher theta-e air nosing in from the W toward Tuesday morning. Weakening MCS to track into West Central Ohio early Tuesday. As this complex encounters an unfavorable environment expect it to decay and fall apart leaving a good deal of debris clouds. As the airmass recovers expect moderate instability to develop later Tuesday afternoon - especially along and northwest of I-71. With a high degrees of uncertainty have kept pops in the chance category with the highest pops across West Central Ohio. High temperatures to range from the upper 80s to the lower 90s. Models solutions support a low level jet of 40-45 kts with moderate instability in place ahead of a shortwave embedded in the westerly mid level flow. Expect storm chances to increase as we head into Tuesday night and spread south and east across ILN/s area. Given instability and shear the potential exists for strong to severe storms with damaging winds being the primary threat late in the day into Tuesday night. ML from CSU and SPC outlooks highlight this threat generally along and northwest of I-71. In the moist airmass locally heavy rain will also be a threat. Mild lows generally in the lower 70s by Wednesday morning. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/... For Wednesday, a surface boundary in phase with an upper trough and short wave energy will push into an unstable airmass, bringing widespread showers and thunderstorms. Some storms could be strong to severe, with damaging winds the main threat, along with heavy rain. A dry interlude is suggested for Thursday and Friday when high pressure is forecast to track across the Great Lakes. A cold front may bring another round of showers and thunderstorms Saturday into Sunday. Dry weather returns Monday with high pressure. Temperature fluctuations will be evident with respect to frontal position and associated clouds and precipitation. Highs ranging through the 80s on Wednesday near the initial cold front will slip to the upper 70s to mid 80s Thursday in modest cold advection behind the front. Warm advection and insolation associated with the high will help boost readings to around 90 on Friday. Further warm advection just ahead of the next front may bring highs up into the 90s for Saturday. A reduction back to the 80s is expected for Sunday and Monday behind the front. && .AVIATION /06Z TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/...
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Skies will remain mostly clear for the local terminals through the first several hours of the TAF period before some mid/high clouds filter in from the W. Some brief BR and MVFR VSBYs will be possible at KLUK in the several hours around daybreak, but otherwise VFR conditions will be maintained area-wide through 12z. For the daytime, there is quite a bit of uncertainty in how things will unfold, especially when attempting to focus on one specific location through time. In general, expect there will be a few WAA-induced SHRA develop near KDAY/KCVG/KLUK/KILN mid/late morning before the remnants of an convective complex approach the the nrn sites of KDAY/KCMH/KLCK shortly after 18z. There remain some uncertainties in both timing and structural integrity of this axis of SHRA/TSRA, especially as the environment will be increasingly unfavorable for maintenance of stronger/severe storms with E/SE extent. That being said, do think there will be a broken linear feature that eventually migrates to the S through the local area mid/late afternoon (18z-22z), bringing with it some SHRA/TSRA and some gusty wind potential (as the storms will be outflow dominant). But pinpointing impacts at one location through the daytime will be somewhat challenging. The activity should weaken with SE extent, with the best organization/maintenance/intensity favored for KCVG/KLUK where the better instby will be positioned by late day. Of course, abrupt reductions in both VSBYs and CIGs and wind speed/direction will be favored in the strongest activity. By 00z, there may be a brief lull that evolves locally before additional clusters/loosely-organized SHRA/TSRA move back into the local area between 06z-12z Wednesday. Light southerly winds will increase to 12-15kts as they go more out of the SW by/past 15z, eventually subsiding toward the end of the period as light (generally 5kts or less) southerly flow resumes. OUTLOOK...Thunderstorms possible Tuesday night and Wednesday.
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&& .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...None. KY...None. IN...None. && $$ SYNOPSIS...AR NEAR TERM... SHORT TERM...AR LONG TERM...Coniglio AVIATION...KC