Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 1026 NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 829 PM EDT Mon Sep 16 2024 Areas affected...portions of northeast ND & northwest MN Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding possible Valid 170027Z - 170627Z Summary...Isolated to widely scattered instances of flash flooding are expected to continue overnight. Hourly rain totals to 2.5" and additional local amounts to 5" are expected. Discussion...The three recent areas of convection across northern ND into northwest MN are beginning to bridge together as new convection forms at the present time. The western end moving east of Minot is associated with an upper level low/MCV moving northeast across ND. Farther east in northeast ND and northwest MN, additional thunderstorms are forming within a warm air advection pattern ahead of a related surface wave and near its warm front, which appears to be in the process of becoming stationary or perhaps nudging southward due to convective outflow. Precipitable water values are around 1.5" per GPS data. Effective bulk shear in the region is 25-35 kts, which is helping to organize the thunderstorms. MU CAPE is 1500-3000 J/kg. CIN is rebuilding across the region, which should keep most convection elevated. The upper low/MCV and its convective cluster marks the western fringe of the heavy rain threat and is forward propagating to the east. Mesoscale guidance still isn't agreeable on which side of the US/Canadian border -- if not right along it -- the rainfall maximum is expected over the next six hours, but radar reflectivity trends continue to support heavy rain on the U.S. side, or the southern side of the mesoscale guidance spread. Eastward propagation should continue. The Canadian Regional Model made a substantial southward shift in its 18z run, supporting the more southward placement. Given what's happened so far, hourly rain totals to 2.5" and additional local amounts to 5" are expected. This would be most problematic in areas that received heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours. Due to the isolated to widely scattered nature of the flash flooding/very heavy rainfall thus far and uncertainty in the model guidance, continue to use possible wording over likely. Roth ATTN...WFO...BIS...DLH...FGF... ATTN...RFC...MBRFC...NCRFC...NWC... LAT...LON 49509618 49459488 48669337 48089390 47919566 47899642 47869755 47760140 48160139 48370122 48729983 49129838 49389725Download in GIS format: Shapefile | KML
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