• Heavy Rain/Flood East US

    From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to All on Fri Jun 6 08:56:00 2025
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    Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0378
    NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
    750 AM EDT Fri Jun 06 2025

    Areas affected...Central Appalachians...Northern
    Mid-Atlantic...Southern NY State

    Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding possible

    Valid 061150Z - 061750Z

    SUMMARY...Scattered showers and thunderstorms will generally tend
    to expand in coverage by midday across the central Appalachians,
    the northern Mid-Atlantic, and southern NY state. At least
    isolated areas of flash flooding will be possible given heavy
    rainfall rates and locally wet antecedent conditions.

    DISCUSSION...The early morning GOES-E WV suite shows a fairly
    well-defined shortwave impulse advancing east through the upper OH
    Valley which will be crossing gradually into the central
    Appalachians and northern Mid-Atlantic by midday. This energy
    coupled with a quasi-stationary front and multiple waves of low
    pressure riding northeast along it is already producing some
    locally heavy showers and thunderstorms across far eastern OH, the
    northern WV Panhandle and far western PA.

    While instability is quite modest with only about 500 to 750 J/kg
    of MUCAPE in place where the axis of convection is occurring, the
    diurnal heating cycle by later this morning through midday will
    facilitate stronger boundary layer instability. This coupled with
    local orographics and differential heating boundaries, along with
    a weak upper-level jet streak (associated with the aforementioned
    shortwave trough) should support a gradual expansion of convective
    activity that will encompass the central Appalachians and stretch
    northeastward across the northern Mid-Atlantic and southern NY state.

    The PW anomalies early this morning are running about 1.5 standard
    deviations above normal with CIRA-ALPW data showing rather strong concentrations of moisture in the 850/500 mb layer ahead of the
    shortwave impulse. This coupled with the increasing instability
    over the next several hours should favor increasingly efficient
    rainfall rates that by later this morning may reach 1.5+ inches/hour.

    Cell-motions are forecast to be relatively slow, and with some of
    the activity capable of briefly training over the same area, some
    3-hourly rainfall totals of as much as 2 to 3 inches will be
    possible. Given the locally wet antecedent conditions that are in
    place, these heavier rainfall rates/totals may cause at least some
    isolated ares of flash flooding and this will include some urban
    flooding impacts as well.

    Orrison

    ATTN...WFO...ALY...BGM...BUF...CLE...CTP...ILN...LWX...PBZ... PHI...RLX...RNK...

    ATTN...RFC...RHA...TAR...TIR...NWC...

    LAT...LON 43127592 42817468 42037441 41467499 40477713
    39197893 37678073 37748220 38738324 39908286
    40858186 41888015 42747773

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