000 FPUS3 KFSD 291226 SFDFSD SOUTH DAKOTA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECT WORDING...ADD ABR AFD NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 315 AM CST FRI MAR 29 1996 THERE WILL BE SCATTERED LIGHT ZR ZL AND SNW OVER MOST SD TODAY... AND JUDGEMENT CALL ON ISSUING HEADLINES. THINK THAT THE REAL SLICKERY WEATHER WILL BE NORTH CENTRAL THIS AFTERNOON AS MID LVL MIXING RATIOS INCREASE AND UPGLIDE GENERATED LIQUID PRECIP FALLS THROUGH COLD LOW LVL AIR. THIS WILL SPREAD INTO THE EAST THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT WITH NIGHT TIME COOLING AT SFC ALLOWING FREEZING RAIN TO SPREAD SOUTH. SOME WARM AIR COMING NORTH NEAR SFC IN SE SO PRECIP MAY STAY RAIN THEN CHANGE OVER TO SNOW WITHOUT INTERMEDIATE ZR. THINK THAT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE GENERALLY 1 TO 3 INCHES AS ONLY MODERATE DYNAMICS WITH BEST INDICATION OF PRECIPITATION POTENTIAL ON ISENTROPIC SFCS. WILL TRIM WINDS SLIGHTLY IN UPGLIDE REGION AND BUMP UP IN SUBSIDENCE ON SATURDAY. DONT EXPECT TO DIFFER TO MUCH FROM GUID TEMPS. AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SATURATED UPSLOPE CONDITIONS FCST TO CONT OVR WRN SD AND NE WYOMING THRU THE MRNG HRS. EXPCT FRZG DRZL AND OCNL LGT SNW TO CONT THRU AT LEAST MID DAY. UPR LVL SUPPORT FOR SNW DVLPS BY MIDDAY AS THE UPR TROF CROSSES THE CONTDVD AND A WK JET STRK AND PVA MOV OVR THE NRN PLAINS ...WITH RIGHT REAR QUAD OF JET STRK SETTG UP OVR NWRN SD AND WRN ND. CARPENTER AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST SD NGM SHWS 60% TO 70% OVR CWA THIS MRNG INCRG TO 90% OVR NE SD BY EVE. PC-GRIDS TIME SECT SHWS 70% PLUS AT LOW AND MID LVL FOR NXT 30 HRS. PLENTY OF MSTR & LIFT AVAILABLE FOR PRECIP TDY. FRNT CRNTLY LOCATED FROM NE MINN THRU FSD AND INTO CNTRL NEB. FRNT IS FCST TO RETREAT TO A Y26 TO PIR LINE BY 00Z TNGT. WARM MOIST AIR AHEAD OF FRNT OVR RIDING TO COLD AIR BEHIND THE FRNT SEEM MORE LIKE ZR- THEN S- FOR TDY OVR MST OF OUR CWA. A BETTER LOOK AT THIS WL BE THE ABR ROAB BUT THAT IS TOO LATE FOR FCST. .FSD...WINTER WEATHER ADV THIS AFTERNOON NORTH CENTRAL ...WINTER WEATHER ADV TONIGHT NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL