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Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0417
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
1013 AM EDT Mon Jun 15 2026
Areas affected...Far East-Central TX...Northern & Eastern
LA...Southern MS...Southwest AL...Far Western FL Panhandle...
Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding likely
Valid 151415Z - 152000Z
SUMMARY...Efficient rain-producing thunderstorms seeking out
remaining instability with rates of 2-2.5"/hr and localized 2-4"
are possible.=20
DISCUSSION...14z surface analysis depicts a weak surface
inflection across NE TX connected to a stalling front across N LA
that extends across central MS/AL as the overall large scale
pattern dries out across much of the Midwest/Tennessee Valley.=20
The strong surge of tropical moisture out of the West Gulf has
turned northeast and resulted in the initial WAA convective
complex across central to eastern LA this morning. This complex
has resulted in a weak cold pool/meso-high that has sharpened a
theta-E boundary from near KLFK to KPOE to KOPL into SE LA
northeast of KHUM. Southwest of the boundary surface Tds are in
the upper 70s to near 80 with CIRA LPW of 1.25" in the sfc to
850mb layer and overall total PWats reaching 2.25-2.5".=20=20
Increasing divergence in the right entrance to the 100kt eastward
moving jets streak over N AR/TN should help evacuate and maintain
updrafts into organized clusters. Deep layer steering is also
generally west to east though there is a broadening southeast
component across S MS/AL along the edge of the deeper layer ridge
in the Gulf. As such, training will be more likely further west
than south.
A lull in the southwesterly flow responding upstream pressure
falls has effectively stopped the WAA across central LA and
shifted it back to far east-central TX and N LA where strong
convective initiation has been seen with numerous overshooting
tops in Visible and rapidly cooling tops nearing -65 to -70C,
feeding off the pool of 2000-2500 J/kg of SBCAPE. Hourly rates of
2-2.5"/hr occasionally increasing to 3"+ is possible with storm interaction/locally enhanced inflow. As mentioned above,
residency of heavy rainfall may be more likely across E TX/N LA
into W MS given the easterly flow and with slightly higher bulk
shear to maintain better cluster organization. Streaks of 2-4"
are likely with an isolated 4-5" not out of the realm of
possibility.
Weaker remaining convection exist across south-central MS but due
to the meso-high has started to propagate northeastward into the
remaining unstable air between the main front and the meso-high
itself; 1500-2000 J/kg should also help for strengthening
updrafts, but overall forcing to maintain them will be less, but
still highly efficient with rates of 2-2.5"/hr. Residency should
limit overall totals relative to upstream locations due to this
limited forcing, but spots of 2-3" quickly. The only location
with potential for some extended residency in this regime is near
the Gulf Coast where onshore flow/frictional convergence tends to
help redevelop or anchor updrafts for a few extra minutes, which
in this moisture regime could be an additional 1" quickly.=20
While hydrologically, the area has been fairly dry or average in
soil moisture, the nature of the extreme rainfall rates are likely
to overwhelm infiltration potential. As such, localized scattered
to widely scattered areas or training streaks are likely to
experience flash flooding through the early afternoon hours.
Gallina
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ATTN...WFO...JAN...LCH...LIX...MOB...SHV...
ATTN...RFC...ALR...FWR...ORN...NWC...
LAT...LON 32889147 32638950 32218864 31818784 31498674=20
30398657 30158752 30088876 29528942 29749076=20
30789245 31179344 31349455 31879523 32429509=20
32809347=20
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