NWS Area Weather Forecast Discussion
Louisville, KY
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000 FXUS63 KLMK 040023 AFDLMK Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Louisville KY 723 PM EST Thu Dec 3 2020 .Forecast Update... Issued at 715 PM EST Thu Dec 3 2020 Light band of precip associated with weak warm advection and a sfc trof now pushing across central Kentucky. We`re just cool and dry enough to be mixing in a few pellets of sleet or graupel at the onset of precip, based on ground truth reports and some bright- banding noticeable on radar. Expect any mixed precip to be brief, and temps are warm enough that it won`t be impactful. Have issued a Special Weather Statement to highlight the potential for a brief period of sleet/graupel. Otherwise the forecast remains on track. && .Short Term...(This evening through Friday) Issued at 300 PM EST Thu Dec 3 2020 A mid-level low pressure center is slowly advancing eastward from the Oklahoma/Missouri border. While at the surface, a low pressure trough, ahead of the mid level low, is following the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys northward. This trough is giving moisture a channel to be isotropically lifted, and as the system moves east, the CWA can expect increasing low level moisture which will result in lowering clouds and rainfall. A few radar returns have already moved over parts of the area, but with dry low levels, virga resulted. The better rain chances will begin to move into the southwestern parts of the CWA around 0z tonight. The heaviest rain will arrive after 6z and slowly work its way east out of the area tomorrow evening. Areas east of Interstate 65 and south of the Kentucky Parkways are expected to see the most rain. Overall, this will be a light rain event with many in southern Indiana and around Louisville seeing less than a tenth of an inch total. Areas near Clinton County, Kentucky will do much better as they are expected to see close to an inch. .Long Term...(Friday night through Thursday) Issued at 245 PM EST Thu Dec 3 2020 Rain showers will begin tapering off Friday evening as our system pushes eastward. It appears at this time that the cold air will lag behind just enough to prevent any wintry precipitation from developing, so currently advertising just a cold rain to wrap things up. Dry conditions should persist through the weekend as high pressure builds in from the west. We could see some very isolated, light showers develop late Sunday into Monday as a fast moving clipper diving out of Canada interacts with a slow moving upper level low that will push from the southern Plains into the Tennessee Valley. A few models depict some light QPF falling ahead of these systems, but a quick look at forecast soundings shows very little moisture in the column, and most of it reserved to the lowest 2km. Should precipitation develop, temperature profiles could be cold enough to support something wintry, but with moisture lacking, any accumulations would be minimal. Flow aloft will remain northwesterly through much of the early and mid parts of next week and generally devoid of any fast moving clippers or systems beyond Monday. As a result, expect dry conditions to end the period, with some slight warming as an upper level ridge begins to advance toward the region. && .Aviation...(00Z TAF Issuance) Issued at 635 PM EST Thu Dec 3 2020 Low-level saturation is just getting underway with very light rain falling out of a mid-level ceiling at SDF and BWG. Once this initial warm advection wing moves through, look for a dry period before the low-level jet punches up into BWG and LEX after midnight. Greatest operational impact will be ceilings dropping into IFR and staying there for at least the morning. By mid-afternoon, the upper low pushes into the Tennessee Valley, shunting the best moisture feed off to the east, with winds picking up out of the west and ceilings recovering to MVFR. However only HNB will come up above 2000 feet Friday afternoon. SDF will stay VFR with light winds for much of the night, but cigs will drop into MVFR just before daybreak Friday and go below 2000 feet by mid-morning. Fuel-alternate conditions will persist at SDF until around sunset, then lift to VFR. && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...None. KY...None. && $$ Update...RAS Short Term...KDW Long Term...DM Aviation...RAS
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