Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Jackson, MS
Issued by NWS Jackson, MS
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430 FXUS64 KJAN 280044 AFDJAN Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Jackson MS 744 PM CDT Thu Jun 27 2024 ...New AVIATION... .DISCUSSION... Issued at 248 PM CDT Thu Jun 27 2024 Tonight and tomorrow: Showers and storms should wind down past sunset tonight given the diurnal nature of activity. Low level moisture could promote some fog and low stratus development, but should be isolated and confined to the eastern half of the area. A stalled boundary draped across the Pine Belt should lead to some redevlopment of showers and storms tomorrow afternoon. Weak lapse rates will once again be the question, thus severity will be limited. Much like today, heating could modify this, and given around 20 kts of flow and the presence of a boundary, there could be an isolated stronger storm. Activity should taper off with waning heating. Further north and west, upper ridging begins to build in and will limit rain chances. Temperatures and dewpoints will also be on the rise, resulting in heat indices in the Delta around 105-108. Given this, have opted to issue a heat advisory for tomorrow afternoon and will continue to message elevated heat stress in HWO. Another stretch of greater heat is likely into the weekend. /SAS/ Saturday through Thursday: The primary weather concerns through the middle of next week will be dangerous heat and mainly diurnal thunderstorm activity. The prevailing synoptic feature in the region will be the subtropical ridge. The core of the ridge will begin the weekend flattened and centered over the Southern High Plains. This will favor continued heat concerns especially for Louisiana, Arkansas, and western Mississippi where the ridge`s strength will be most pronounced and low-level thermal profile enhances warming potential. Closer to teh Gulf Coast, more tropical conditions and easterly wave activity will keep the chances for showers and thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday. As the upper-level ridge pivots eastward along the Gulf Coast, a shortwave trough over the Midwest will nudge a cold front into our region late Sunday into Monday. Rain chances will increase Sunday with convergence ahead of the front, and then expect humidity and accompanying higher heat indices and POPs to be confined to the far south on Monday. Tuesday will be transitional as the ridge moves overhead, but some recovery of humidity should occur. And then for Wednesday and Thursday we should be on the western periphery of the upper-level ridge with surface flow returning out of the south. Heat and and least a chance for afternoon showers and thunderstorms will then return areawide, with afternoon sea breeze becoming a feature those days. /NF/ && .AVIATION... (00Z TAFS) Issued at 738 PM CDT Thu Jun 27 2024 Sct shra will diminish early this evening, but a humid boundary layer may support patchy fog/low stratus as we go into late night/early Fri morning. While explicit guidance isn`t bullish on low stratus development, can`t rule out considerable IFR coverage in this type of set-up. Category restrictions will improve in the late morning/aftn, with redevelopment of sct SHRA/VCTS expected mainly southeast half of the forecast area during peak heating. /EC/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Jackson 73 90 75 92 / 20 40 10 30 Meridian 72 91 74 94 / 20 50 20 50 Vicksburg 73 93 76 94 / 10 20 0 20 Hattiesburg 75 93 76 95 / 30 70 20 60 Natchez 72 91 75 93 / 10 30 10 30 Greenville 73 93 78 97 / 0 10 0 10 Greenwood 73 92 76 94 / 10 20 0 20 && .JAN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MS...Heat Advisory from 10 AM to 8 PM CDT Friday for MSZ018-019-025- 034-035-040-041-047. LA...Heat Advisory from 10 AM to 8 PM CDT Friday for LAZ007>009-015- 016-023>026. AR...Heat Advisory from 10 AM to 8 PM CDT Friday for ARZ074-075. && $$ SAS20/NF/EC