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FXUS63 KIND 121044
AFDIND

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Indianapolis IN
644 AM EDT Thu Jun 12 2025

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Dry and warm today

- Rain and storm chances increase for Friday and Saturday

- Slow moving storms will have a heavy rain and localized flood 
  threat Friday afternoon through Saturday

- Chances for rain will continue at times into next week

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.SHORT TERM (Today and tonight)...
Issued at 238 AM EDT Thu Jun 12 2025

Quiet weather will continue through the day today, with surface high 
pressure hanging on to influence the area for a bit longer. 

Aloft, flow ahead of an approaching upper trough will bring 
increasing high clouds today. At the surface, south to southwest 
winds will bring in some low level moisture, which will keep 
dewpoints in the 60s.

Some elevated smoke will linger today, but with the increasing high 
clouds, it won't be as noticeable as sky cover.

Even with the high clouds moving in, temperatures will still peak in 
the middle 80s for most areas.

During the night tonight, moisture will continue to increase as the 
upper trough continues its slow approach from the southwest. This 
will thicken the cloud cover across central Indiana.

Some weak isentropic lift will move in as well overnight. This may 
produce a few showers over the area, so will have some low PoPs to 
account for this.

The clouds will help keep low temperatures in the 60s.

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.LONG TERM (Friday through Wednesday)...
Issued at 238 AM EDT Thu Jun 12 2025

Unsettled weather will continue at times throughout the long term 
period.

The upper trough will slowly push north and east into the weekend, 
moving over central Indiana on Saturday. The system will have 
plentiful moisture with it given good flow from the Gulf. 
Precipitable water values will approach 2 inches at times into the 
weekend.

Forcing from the system plus the moisture will lead to numerous to 
widespread showers at times, especially from Friday afternoon into 
Saturday afternoon. There will be enough instability for thunder as 
well. However, shear will be weak with this system. Thus, odds for 
organized severe look low into the weekend. That being said, 
isolated pulse strong to perhaps severe storms cannot be ruled out.

The main threat for Friday into Saturday is locally heavy rainfall 
and resultant flooding. The plentiful moisture plus slow moving 
storms will create this threat. In addition, on Saturday, some 
deformation from a surface wave may also come into play. Will 
continue to mention a heavy rain threat in outlooks.

The initial upper trough will move out slowly on Sunday, but now 
another upper system looks to follow it. This will keep chances for 
rain around through the early part of next week.

For mid-week, there is some uncertainty on how the upper pattern 
will end up. Another upper trough could move toward the area, or the 
area could be on the periphery of an upper ridge where upper energy 
could move through as well. Either way though the result will be 
some chance for rain. 

Highs will generally be in the 80s throughout the long term, with 
perhaps some upper 80s arriving by mid-week next week. Humid 
conditions look to persist through much of the period as well.

&&

.AVIATION (12Z TAF Issuance)...
Issued at 643 AM EDT Thu Jun 12 2025

Impacts:

- MVFR visibility in fog possible before 13Z

Discussion: 

MVFR visibility in fog is possible through 13Z at KLAF/KBMG.  

VFR conditions are otherwise expected to prevail through the 
forecast period as weak surface high pressure centered to the east 
of central Indiana...allows the very warm and increasingly humid air 
mass to promote low chances of -SHRA by the end of the TAF period 
Friday morning.  High clouds will be the rule today, with some VFR 
cumulus also possible...while mid cloud ceilings should arrive 
around 06Z tonight. 

Weak south-southwesterly winds today will peak around 5-8KT this 
afternoon, followed by generally light/variable flow tonight.

&&

.IND WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...None.
&&

$$

SHORT TERM...50
LONG TERM...50
AVIATION...AGM