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Area Forecast Discussion...Updated Aviation
National Weather Service Saint Louis MO
638 PM CDT Sun Apr 28 2024

.KEY MESSAGES...

- The threat for severe thunderstorms this evening is greatly
  diminished due to a lack of appreciable instability. If a
  stronger storm can develop, marginally-severe wind and hail is
  still an outside possibility. A tornado cannot be ruled out as
  well, but is very unlikely.

- Heavy rain has a 30% chance in causing nuisance flooding
  overnight in southeast Missouri and southwest Illinois. More
  dramatic impacts are not forecast given the general lack of
  rainfall and progressive nature of the storms.

- Temperatures remain above-normal into the work week, with
  sporadic rain chances through the week. The highest chance for
  rain will accompany a cold front near the end of the week.


&&

.SHORT TERM...  (Through Late Monday Night)
Issued at 235 PM CDT Sun Apr 28 2024

Abundant cloud cover plagues the Mid-Mississippi Valley, per latest
GOES-East satellite imagery. A sluggish surface low is tracking
northeast out of the central Great PLains into Iowa, leaving our
region in the open warm sector ahead of a cold front extending south
from the low. Despite this, the clouds and persistent showers are
drastically hindering diurnal heating, keeping temperatures far more
moderated than forecast. Aloft, heights have either remained steady
or risen slightly in the amplified southwest flow of a closed
shortwave over the northern Great Plains. The limited cooling aloft
and stunted diurnal surface heating is keeping destabilization in
the warm sector to a minimum.

The cold front will advance east this afternoon into the evening,
serving as the catalyst for another round of showers and isolated
thunderstorms. Despite nearly every CAM`s poor attempt at modeling
the instability, the mitigating factors listed above will likely win
the day and hamper any threat for strong to severe thunderstorms in
the forecast area. While isolated instances of marginally-severe
convection can`t be ruled out along the front itself, posing a
damaging wind and brief, weak tornado threat, most showers and/or
thunderstorms will not pose a severe weather threat. Ahead of the
front, a low-level jet across southeast Missouri and southern
Illinois will intensify nearly parallel to the boundary, leading
to more widespread rain in that area. Given PWATs exceeding the
90th climatological percentile, deep warm cloud depths, and skinny
CAPE profiles in southeast Missouri and southwest Illinois,
rainfall will be rather efficient and there`s a 30% chance for
some degree of nuisance flooding. That said, the front will keep
things progressive enough to preclude any noteworthy flash
flooding. The rain will also fall in an area that`s largely missed
out on the heavy rain that the rest of the region saw over the
last few days.

The front will gradually exit the region to the southeast tomorrow
and become more diffuse. While low (15-25%) PoPs linger in our far
southeast region, most of the bi-state will be dry. Little to no
cold air advection will be present aloft, so temperatures will
stay warm to start the work week. High pressure builds into the
region more prominently on Monday night amidst weak ridging aloft,
sending temperatures into more comfortable low/mid-50s overnight.

MRB

&&

.LONG TERM...  (Tuesday through Next Sunday)
Issued at 235 PM CDT Sun Apr 28 2024

The unsettled weather pattern will continue through most of this
week into next weekend.  The LREF supports most of the global models
in showing quasi-zonal flow on Tuesday becoming more southwesterly
by Thursday when a deeper trough moves into the Plains with the
GEFS/Canadian showing a deeper and slightly slower solution than the
ECWMF. At the surface, a surface front will move north of the area
on Tuesday leaving the area dry before it moves down into northern
parts of the CWA Tuesday night into Wednesday night bringing a
chance for showers and thunderstorms. The aforementioned trough will
bring increased ascent over the area Thursday into Thursday night
along with the front, so will keep the NBM`s likely/categorical PoPs
as it moves across the area. Depending on the timing of the trough,
chances will decrease on Friday with just slight chances currently
next weekend as some of the ensemble members (10-20%) have rain
chances in the zonal flow aloft.  The amount of CAPE/shear seen in
the LREF and the global models do not support any widespread risk
for organized severe thunderstorms over the area this week which go
along with the CIPS/CSU probabilities.

Temperatures Tuesday through Thursday look like they will be 10-15
degrees above normal as 850mb temperatures climb to around +15C in
the warm sector.  Temperatures will drop back closer to normal over
the weekend behind the cold front, though the NBM IQR shows a larger
spread which reflects the uncertainty associated with the zonal
flow.

Britt

&&

.AVIATION...  (For the 00z TAFs through 00z Monday Evening)
Issued at 637 PM CDT Sun Apr 28 2024

Showers are beginning to enter central Missouri and will continue to
push east/northeastwards through the evening and overnight hours. A
few thunderstorms have the potential to become strong late this
evening with the passage of a cold front that is currently over far
eastern Kansas. However, heavy rainfall is becoming the more likely
scenario. Expect low VFR to MVFR ceilings with these showers and
embedded thunderstorms through Monday morning.

After the passage of the cold front, winds will become westerly with
VFR flight conditions by late Monday morning.

MMG/Britt

&&

.LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...None.
IL...None.
&&

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