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FXUS61 KCLE 210139
AFDCLE

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Cleveland OH
939 PM EDT Sat Jul 20 2019

.SYNOPSIS...
A ridge of high pressure will build northeast over the eastern
United States and linger through tonight. A cold front will
move south across the area Sunday. High pressure will build east
out of the middle Mississippi Valley region Tuesday to the Ohio
Valley by Wednesday with below average temperatures.

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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/...
Line of whats left of thunderstorms arrived into the area and
remains a bit active over the eastern portions of the area. The
line weakened over the west. Will keep a chance to likely POPs
over the east this evening and then taper it off. Reduced POPs
to chance in the west. Temperatures continue to cool at this
time due to the rain and now that sun has set.

Previous Discussion...

Immediate term forecast remains conditional and uncertain, as a
long lived MCS moving into western MI seems to be tracking
southeast towards the area. As the past few days, hi res
guidance has been poor with handling the ongoing convection,
slow to assimilate the current radar trends. Environmentally,
favorable conditions exist downstream of the MCS towards the
region, so would anticipate that the precipitation will make it
into the area in some form after 00Z. The question is if the MCS
will be able to maintain a good cold pool/shear balance to
capitalize on the highly unstable environment that awaits ahead
of it. If the storms intensify tracking into southeast MI over
the next few hours, confidence would greatly increase in strong
to possible severe thunderstorms making into the northwest part
of the forecast area this evening, with damaging winds the
primary threat. For now, have upped pops into the mid chance
range, but may need another upward adjustment with the early
evening update depending on the radar trend at that point.

The convection should diminish overnight across the area, and
have diminished pops after 06Z across the area. Synoptic front
will push south into the area late overnight into tomorrow
morning. Models are trending redevelopment of shower/storms
across the southern part of the area tomorrow afternoon/evening,
highlighted by the SPC Day 2 marginal risk. Temperatures will
cool a bit behind the front across the area, although highs may
reach the lower 90s across the southern part of the forecast
area. The lingering high dewpoints will combine with the temps
to produce heat indices near 100. Will hold off on extending any
heat headline for Sunday at this point, with a good bit of
uncertainty with how the potential evening/overnight convection
impacts the southward movement of the synoptic front and the
temperature recovery tomorrow afternoon.

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.SHORT TERM /MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/...
The main upper trough axis pushes through on Monday and takes
the frontal boundary away from the region. Will still need
precip chances mentioned for Monday with the upper trough, but
conditions will improve from northwest to southeast as the day
progresses. Temperatures will actually be a touch below normal
with mid/upper 70s expected. Dewpoints, although already stepped
down from what they were over the weekend, will continue to
drop and reach very comfortable 50s for Tuesday. Have 20 percent
chances of a shower both Tuesday and Wednesday with the general
troughiness and cool air aloft.

&&

.LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/...
The high shifts overhead mid week and then east late week. Will have
fair weather and temperatures that will slowly warm through the end
of the week. The next front arrives over the weekend or early next
week. At this point will just have precip chances entering the
picture Saturday night. So by Saturday have temperatures back into
the mid 80s.

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.AVIATION /00Z Sunday THROUGH Thursday/...
A line of thunderstorms continues to move southeast toward the
area and is about to enter Lucas County. The line appears to be
weakening with time as it approaches the region as the outflow
boundary is outrunning the thunderstorms. Gusty winds to 30 to
40 knots possible with the gust front so be alert for that. A
secondary round of thunderstorms will follow the main line and
will have to be monitored for severe threat. A cluster of
thunderstorms developed over Geauga County and will move east
toward the Youngstown terminal. It should quiet down later
tonight and then as cold front approaches tomorrow, another
threat for showers and thunderstorms can be expected in the
morning. Shower and thunderstorm threat diminishes in the
afternoon with improving conditions.

OUTLOOK...Non-VFR possible through Monday.

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.MARINE...
Storms will precede the cold front tonight and diminish during the
day Sunday as the front slowly sags southward. Winds will shift to
the north and make the lake a bit choppy, especially Monday. We may
not reach Small Craft Criteria, but it may be close. Northerly flow
will continue through mid week with high pressure centered just west
of the Great Lakes. The high will shift across Lake Erie for the
latter half of the week.

&&

.CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...None.
PA...None.
MARINE...None.

&&

$$
SYNOPSIS...Greenawalt
NEAR TERM...Greenawalt/Lombardy
SHORT TERM...Oudeman
LONG TERM...Oudeman
AVIATION...Lombardy
MARINE...Oudeman