National Weather Service Text Product
AFOS product AFDABR
Dates interpreted at 00:00 UTCDisplaying AFOS PIL: AFDABR
Product Timestamp: 2002-06-03 08:10 UTC
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192 FXUS63 KABR 030801 AFDABR AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/N-EAST SD AND W-CENTRAL MN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 310 AM CDT MON JUN 3 2002 MAIN FCST CHALLENGE THIS MORNING ONCE AGAIN DEALS WITH PCPN CHANCES. SFC BOUNDARY CONTS TO SAG SLOWLY SOUTH AND EAST AWAY FROM CWA. MODELS KEEP SW FLOW OVER CWA THROUGH 00Z TUESDAY WITH MINOR WAVES ROTATING OVER CWA. OFFSETTING THIS IS THAT 7H THETA-E FORCING REALLY DIMINISHES FAST TODAY...WITH DOWNGLIDE NOTED BY 00Z ON 300K AND 305K LAYERS. AS FAST AS SHOWERS DISSIPATED THIS MORNING THAT WERE MOVING NE THROUGH THE CWA...AM MORE INCLINED TO GO WITH A DRY FCST. SFC TRAJECTORIES CONT TO SHOW RELATIVELY DRY FLOW AT SFC. WITH AFOREMENTIONED WAVES CONT TO EJECT OVER SECTIONS OF CWA...FORESEE A LOT OF CLOUDS TODAY...BUT LITTLE IN THE WAY OF PCPN. THIS WILL ALSO HELP TO KEEP A LID ON TEMPS. OVERNIGHT SHOULD BE QUIET WITH MOST OF ACTIVITY CONT TO BE FOCUSED SOUTH AND EAST OF CWA...CLOSER TO SFC AND MID-LEVEL CONVERGENCE BOUNDARIES. STILL SHOULD SEE A GOOD LAYER OF CLOUDS. FCST BECOMES A BIT FUZZY FOR TUESDAY. THE ETA FORMS A WEAK SFC LOW IN ASSOCIATION WITH STRONG 5H WAVE DROPPING OUT OF NW. THE AVN KEEPS BROAD CANADIAN HIGH OVER CWA. HOWEVER...IF YOU LOOK AT THE 85H-7H RH FIELDS FROM BOTH MODELS...BOTH ARE VERY SIMILAR. THE ETA DOES SHOW SOME MINOR 7H THETA-E FORCING ON TUESDAY...BUT NOTHING REALLY NOTED ISENTROPICALLY. THE ETA DOES PRINT OUT SOME MINOR QPF FROM 18Z TUESDAY TO 00Z WEDNESDAY ACROSS SECTIONS OF NRN AND ERN CWA...ALTHO AMOUNTS ARE LESS THAN 0.10 INCH. SINCE WE SEEM TO HAVE TROUBLE GETTING PCPN STARTED ACROSS THESE SECTIONS OF CWA...WILL KEEP DRY FCST GOING FOR TUESDAY. WILL BE SOMETHING TO CONSIDER FOR THE AFTN PACKAGE. .ABR...NONE. HINTZ