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Issued by NWS Oklahoma City, OK
Issued by NWS Oklahoma City, OK
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159 FXUS64 KOUN 142331 AFDOUN Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Norman OK 631 PM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 ...New AVIATION... .KEY MESSAGES... Updated at 618 PM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 - Rain chances continue today and into Tuesday, mainly in southeastern Oklahoma. - Rain chances return to northern Oklahoma as a weak surface front approaches Thursday and Friday. - Warming trend this week. && .NEAR TERM... (Rest of today and tonight) Issued at 1207 PM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 After some morning convection across southeast Oklahoma, yet another MCV currently just south of the Red River, south of Durant, will move northeast across southeast Oklahoma this afternoon into this evening. This will likely result in additional shower and thunderstorm activity across this area. Will need to watch for some isolated flooding potential as several inches of rain has fallen across some of these same areas over the past couple of days. Isolated showers and storms will be possible elsewhere this afternoon. Models do point to a general lull in the activity after sunset, but could see some late night/early morning activity redevelop across southeast Oklahoma with the proximity of the trough and some weak waa that develops. For late tonight, can not completely rule out some patchy ground fog but sounding are quite a bit drier in the boundary layer, so do not anticipate much more than that. && .SHORT TERM... (Tuesday through Wednesday night) Issued at 1207 PM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 Models bring another shortwave/MCV out of south Texas northward toward the the area Tuesday. There is some disagreement on exact track of this MCV, but it appears it may track a bit further west, This would bring it closer to the I-44 corridor, which in turn may bring at least low rain chances along and east of I-44 by Tuesday afternoon. Trough weakens as we go through Tuesday night and Wednesday, but still believe there is an outside chance for an isolated shower or two, but for now will leave the mention of precip out of the forecast and continue to watch model trends. Meanwhile, a shortwave trough will move through the central and northern Plains on Wednesday. As this occurs, a surface front will slide south toward northern Oklahoma by late Wednesday night. Best signal for rain remains in Kansas, but some opportunity for rain will spread south into northern Oklahoma toward Thursday morning. Meanwhile, broad ridging begins to take shape across the southern part of the country and with less cloud cover and precip expect to see a gradual rise in temperatures as we go through the middle of the week with near seasonal norms by Wednesday. && .LONG TERM... (Thursday through Sunday) Issued at 135 AM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 The mid and upper level flow late this week remains to the north, and precipitation chances will remain relatively low and confined to the north for any potential convection sneaking into the area from Kansas. Geopotential heights are forecast to rise slowly late this week, so although a mid-level ridge does not build strongly into the area initially, a warming trends is expected. By Sunday though, there begin to be signals of a mid-level high building in Texas with the ridge expanding north into Oklahoma. If this occurs, we may start seeing the potential of triple-digit temperatures in the area by Sunday. && .AVIATION... (00Z TAFS) Issued at 618 PM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 All of our terminals should remain in a VFR category through much of the forecast. Surface winds should stay south-southeast at 5-10 kts tonight veering more southerly by 18Z at 10-15 kts gusting 15-20 kts. There is a 30% chance for -TSRA between 12-15Z across southeast Oklahoma which may impact terminal KDUA. PROB30s return between 21/24Z for late afternoon convection affecting 3 of our terminals in central through southeast Oklahoma. Any convection should be isolated with high-based ceilings just above the MVFR category, although can`t rule out brief reduced visibilities in rain should any isolated cells pass over the terminals. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Oklahoma City OK 71 92 74 93 / 10 0 10 0 Hobart OK 71 96 73 97 / 10 0 0 0 Wichita Falls TX 73 94 74 95 / 10 20 10 0 Gage OK 68 95 71 97 / 0 0 0 0 Ponca City OK 71 93 74 94 / 0 0 0 0 Durant OK 73 93 74 93 / 20 20 10 10 && .OUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OK...None. TX...None. && $$ NEAR TERM...30 SHORT TERM...30 LONG TERM....26 AVIATION...68