• Heavy Rain MS/OH Valleys

    From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to All on Tue Jul 9 08:22:00 2024
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    Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0599
    NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
    505 AM EDT Tue Jul 09 2024

    Areas affected...Northern AR...Southeast MO...Northwest
    TN...Western KY...Southern IL...Southwest IN

    Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding likely

    Valid 090905Z - 091505Z

    SUMMARY...Tropical Depression Beryl continues to weaken and lift
    off to the north-northeast, but will continue to focus additional
    areas of heavy rainfall and flash flooding heading through the
    morning hours.

    DISCUSSION...The very early morning GOES-E GeoColor satellite
    imagery shows a generally exposed low-level center that makes up a
    weakening T.D. Beryl over far southwest AR just to the
    north-northeast of Texarkana. Much of the remaining convection is
    situated well off to the northeast of the center in a very
    asymmetric manner that is characteristic of a system that is
    increasingly becoming extratropical.

    Regardless, there continues to be heavy rainfall and flash
    flooding concerns, as broken bands of strong convection with heavy
    rainfall rates stretch out from central AR northeastward through
    northwest TN, western KY and southeast MO. Gradually this activity
    will impact more areas of the Lower OH Valley going through the
    morning hours including southern IL and southwest IN as Beryl
    advances steadily off to the northeast.

    MUCAPE values pooled around the eastern flank of Beryl's
    circulation center remain on the order of 500 to 1000 J/kg, with a
    30 to 40 kt southerly low-level jet overrunning a warm front that
    is gradually lifting north through the Mid-South ahead of Beryl's
    track. This is resulting in a well-defined southwest to northeast
    axis of focused isentropic ascent with moderate to heavy rain and
    embedded stronger elevated convective elements. Some of these
    convective elements though are focused and show organization given
    the level of effective bulk shear (40 to 50+ kts) and updraft
    helicity that remains in place.

    The 06Z HREF and recent runs of the HRRR guidance suggest
    additional heavy rains continuing well through the morning hours
    ahead of Beryl, with the dominant focus along and increasingly to
    the left of the storm track as Beryl continues to progress to a baroclinic/extratropical system.

    Some rainfall rates with the persistent areas of stronger elevated
    convection will continue to be on the order of 1 to 2 inches/hour.
    Additional storm totals more regionally going through late this
    morning should reach as high as 3 to 5 inches. These additional
    rains will continue to favor areas of flash flooding, including
    locally more significant urban impacts.

    Orrison

    ATTN...WFO...ILX...IND...LMK...LSX...LZK...MEG...OHX...PAH...
    SGF...TSA...

    ATTN...RFC...ABRFC...LMRFC...MBRFC...NCRFC...OHRFC...NWC...

    LAT...LON 38608793 38248689 37718648 36928667 36378771
    35878915 35449037 34779178 34589295 34969380
    35499395 36089368 36739316 37369232 38049095
    38548937
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