Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
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427 FXUS64 KSHV 191157 AFDSHV Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Shreveport LA 557 AM CST Wed Nov 19 2025 ...New AVIATION... .KEY MESSAGES... Issued at 946 PM CST Tue Nov 18 2025 - Unseasonably warm temperatures will continue through at least the remainder of the work week, through the upcoming weekend and into early next week as well. - However, temperatures will be tapered somewhat by precipitation as rain chances finally begin increasing across the region Wednesday Night and especially Thursday through Friday. - At this time, flooding and/or severe thunderstorms do not appear to have widespread impacts across our region through at least Friday but we cannot rule out an isolated strong to severe storm that could also result in excessive, heavy rainfall. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 946 PM CST Tue Nov 18 2025 You have to go back to the last week of October since our region has received measurable rainfall. To go along with the incredible dry spell our region has experienced, near record heat each afternoon, afternoon wildfires, and overnight high minimum temperatures have also accompanied this stagnant weather pattern. There is hope in the short term horizon with a pattern change coming our way that will hopefully result in a wetting rain across most if not all the Four State Region to end the work week. However, any kind of significant cold air intrusion will likely have to wait until the mid to later half of next week. Upper ridge axis directly overhead attm will begin to shift east of our region later today through tonight as a deep upper level trough becomes established across the Desert Southwest. This trough will eject out quickly tonight and Thursday into the Texas Hill Country and the Southern Plains filling quickly as it does. Lead disturbances in advance of the upper trough will be embedded in an increasingly southwesterly flow aloft pattern and that will assist in bringing convection into portions of our northwest zones as early as this evening but especially overnight tonight through the day Thursday. It`s not until late on Thursday but especially Thu Night into early Friday that more of the Four State Region gets in on the convection as forcing will become maximized in advance of the filling trough from the west impacting our region. Heaviest rainfall amounts should be felt across our northwest third as this is the region that will feel the impacts from the lead disturbance as well as the trough itself but as dry as our region has been, this region should be able to take a good rainfall without too much in the way of widespread impacts. The same can be said for the remainder of our region in the Thu Night through early Friday timeframe. With flash flooding not having any widespread impacts through the end of the work week, the same can be said for severe weather impacts as instability does not appear to be sufficient to sustain any kind of widespread, severe weather outbreak with this trough. Convection should be ending from northwest to southeast across our region on Friday but cannot rule out at least isolated to scattered convection possible across at least our southeast half on Saturday and areawide on Sunday as our region will remain under southwesterly flow aloft as yet another vigorous upper level trough drops southward into the Desert Southwest by the upcoming weekend. Unlike it`s predecessor, this trough appears to come out all in one piece, likely impacting at least the western half of our region Sunday Night and more of our region Monday into Tuesday. This second trough may has the potential to produce more in the way of excessive heavy rainfall and possible severe weather compared to its predecessor so we will have to monitor this trough`s evolution and progression closely through the upcoming weekend. It`s behind this second trough that we may finally begin to see some much colder air move out of the Plains and into the Lower Miss Valley on Thanksgiving Day and beyond. 13 && .AVIATION... (12Z TAFS) Issued at 546 AM CST Wed Nov 19 2025 Quite a few terminals battling a mix of IFR and LIFR flight conditions this morning as low ceilings below 1kft and instances of BR/FG are the key players in this. Expect for this to continue through the morning with gradual recovery into the afternoon. Though the low clouds should lift and scatter out some through the afternoon, mid and high clouds will play more into the forecast before the low clouds look to return overnight and into Thursday. At the same time, convective hazards will increase by the late stages of the TAF period as VCSH and VCTS were introduced just before 20/12z, with SHRA/TSRA existing across the NW tier of the airspace, moving east and closer to TXK by 20/12z. Terminal winds will continue to be southerly through the period between 5-10kt, with the potential for gusty VRB winds under stronger convection. 53 && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Issued at 946 PM CST Tue Nov 18 2025 While thunderstorm chances will be increasing across the northwest half of our region tonight, these storms will not likely produce any widespread severe weather. 13 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 84 67 81 67 / 0 20 20 70 MLU 83 64 81 65 / 0 10 10 50 DEQ 82 63 74 59 / 10 80 80 90 TXK 83 67 79 65 / 10 60 60 90 ELD 81 63 77 62 / 0 30 30 70 TYR 83 68 79 65 / 10 50 50 80 GGG 83 66 80 63 / 10 40 40 80 LFK 84 64 82 65 / 20 10 40 70 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None. && $$ DISCUSSION...13 AVIATION...53