Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0517 NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 958 PM EDT Sat Jun 29 2024 Areas affected...South-Central to Southeast CO...Central and Northern NM...Far Southwest KS...Portions of the OK/TX Panhandles Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding likely Valid 300158Z - 300758Z SUMMARY...Broken clusters of showers and thunderstorms are expected to continue into the overnight hours, with locally concentrated areas of heavy rainfall and flash flooding potential. DISCUSSION...The early evening GOES-E Proxy Visible satellite imagery in conjunction with dual-pol radar shows broken areas of showers and thunderstorms ongoing right now across large areas of central and northern NM and into southern CO. Moisture and instability remain firmly entrenched across the region, and this coupled with the arrival of shortwave energy/MCVs along with upslope flow into the east and south facing slopes of the high terrain is expected to maintain a rather well-organized threat for convection and heavy rainfall heading into the overnight hours. SBCAPE values remain on the order of 1500 to 2500 J/kg locally with the greatest instability currently over southeast CO and areas of northern NM including the OK/TX Panhandles. Meanwhile, the PWs across the region remain anomalously high with PWs that are a solid 2 to 3 standard deviations above normal. This moisture and instability is also pooling up along a quasi-stationary front draped over the southern Rockies, with moist and convergent low-level flow along it and with transport of this into the higher terrain of especially the Sangre De Cristo Mountains. The latest hires model CAMs support convection overnight becoming locally focused over upslope areas of southeast CO and down into northeast NM with rainfall rates that will be capable of reaching 1.5 to 2 inches/hour. Slow-moving cells which may locally be anchored near the higher terrain before then moving out over the open High Plains may help to yield some storm totals overnight of 3 to 5 inches. These rainfall rates and storm totals going into the overnight period are likely to result in areas of flash flooding. Any burn scar locations, and especially in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains will be particularly susceptible to enhanced impacts and flash flooding concerns. Orrison ATTN...WFO...ABQ...AMA...BOU...DDC...EPZ...GLD...PUB... ATTN...RFC...ABRFC...CBRFC...MBRFC...WGRFC...NWC... LAT...LON 39260317 38230198 37400136 36370118 35600222 35250301 34650388 33650521 33350666 34030769 35020820 36020785 37080633 38170540 39170450Download in GIS format: Shapefile | KML
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