• Heavy Rain/Flood PA/NY/NE

    From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to All on Sat Jun 7 06:35:00 2025
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    Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0392
    NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
    701 AM EDT Sat Jun 07 2025

    Areas affected...Northeast PA...Central and Eastern NY...Central
    and Southern New England

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

    Valid 071100Z - 071600Z

    SUMMARY...Broken areas of heavy showers and a few thunderstorms
    will continue through the morning hours across areas of northeast
    PA into eastern NY, and eventually spreading into parts of central
    and southern New England toward midday. Additional areas of flash
    flooding are likely given locally sensitive antecedent conditions.

    DISCUSSION...Recent cloud-top cooling is noted with a broken area
    of heavy showers and a few thunderstorms impacting areas of
    northeast PA into central and eastern NY. The activity is being
    focused by a shortwave impulse advancing into the Northeast out
    ahead a larger scale trough lifting through the OH Valley and
    central Appalachians. This energy is also interacting with a
    quasi-stationary front and helping to focus a wave of low pressure
    which is promoting isentropic ascent and frontogenetical forcing
    near the front for the locally heavier and concentrated areas of rainfall.

    Despite very modest instability profiles with only about 250 to
    500 J/kg of MUCAPE value, the vertical column is quite moist with
    PWs running a solid 1.5 standard deviations above normal, and
    CIRA-ALPW data showing strong concentrations of mid-level
    moisture. The recent cloud-top cooling suggests the current
    activity will likely continue in the near-term, and the latest
    upper-air analysis is showing some improving right-entrance region
    upper-jet dynamics over the region for ascent. This will
    compensate for the lack of instability over the next few hours and
    continue to favor at least broken ares of highly efficient
    rainfall and elevated rain rates.

    Rainfall rates may reach as high as 1.5 inches/hour with the
    strong convective cores, and with relatively slow cell-motions,
    some short-term rainfall rates at least by late-morning may reach
    2 to 3+ inches. While the activity over the next few hours will
    tend to be more focused over areas of eastern NY and down into the
    Poconos of northeast PA, areas of central and southern New England
    will also begin to see a threat of heavy rainfall by midday.

    The antecedent conditions in general across the region are rather
    sensitive, with locally elevated streamflows, and thus with the
    additional rainfall this morning, there will likely be concerns
    additional areas of flash flooding.

    Orrison

    ATTN...WFO...ALY...BGM...BOX...BTV...GYX...OKX...PHI...

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

    LAT...LON 43717394 43387208 42417198 41757275 41277372
    41067522 41777632 42897584

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