Subj : HVYRAIN: Excessive Rainfa To : All From : Mike Powell Date : Thu Feb 01 2024 08:53:00 FOUS30 KWBC 010817 QPFERD Excessive Rainfall Discussion NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 317 AM EST Thu Feb 01 2024 Day 1 Valid 12Z Thu Feb 01 2024 - 12Z Fri Feb 02 2024 ....THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ACROSS PARTS OF COASTAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING THE LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO METRO AREAS... No significant changes made to the slight risk area across the coastal Southern California, including the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges. The ongoing atmospheric River event focused into northern to central California early Thursday morning, along and ahead of the associated surface frontal boundary, will continue to press south into coastal sections of Southern California after 1200 UTC Thursday. PW values along and ahead of this front will remain anomalous, 2 to 3+ standard deviations above the mean, along with similar 850-700 mb moisture flux anomalies. This will lead to widespread heavy precip totals across coastal southern California day 1, including the Los Angeles and San Diego metro regions. Model qpf continuity is very good with this event, resulting in little in the way of changes to the previous Excessive Rainfall Outlook. While the PW and 850-700 mb moisture flux values are anomalous, the progressive nature of the front will be a limiting factor for very heavy totals. This is reflected in the HREF neighborhood probabilities for .50"+/hour, which are high across the slight risk area, dropping off significantly for values of 1"+/hour. The current slight risk area fits in well with where HREF neighborhood probabilities are high for 1"+ totals Day 1, 90%+ and 2"+ totals Day 1, 50-90%. Oravec Day 2 Valid 12Z Fri Feb 02 2024 - 12Z Sat Feb 03 2024 ....THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS TO THE MIDDLE AND UPPER TEXAS COAST... The strong height falls associated with the Southern California atmospheric river event day 1, will continue to be progressive day 2, moving through the Southwest and into Southern High Plains. Increasing PW values in a region of enhanced upper difluence across the Southern Plains will lead to increasing shower/thunderstorm activity late Friday afternoon into Friday evening/night from west central to eastern Texas, central to eastern Oklahoma into central Kansas. There is potential for some of these showers to become organized after 0000 UTC Saturday, producing north-south to southwest-northeast oriented heavy precip axes. The only changes to the previous marginal risk outlook was to extend it farther to the north-northwest into central Oklahoma and south central Kansas to cover the spread in the latest model qpf guidance for heavy totals. At the moment, there was no changes made to the risk level given the current spread in qpf details and consensus that any precip will be generally to the northwest of where the heaviest amounts have occurred over the past few weeks. One concern area, however, is along the central to northern Texas Gulf coast where models do show boundary layer moisture flux convergence strengthening in the 0600-1200 UTC Saturday period associated with a potential surface coastal wave. Would not be surprised to see convective coverage greater than the models suggest as they are often slow to show the development at this time. This may result in a greater risk along the immediate central to northern Texas Gulf coast, including the Houston metro area. Oravec Day 3 Valid 12Z Sat Feb 03 2024 - 12Z Sun Feb 04 2024 ....THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL FROM EAST TEXAS INTO PORTIONS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY/CENTRAL GULF COAST... The potential developing convection along the mid to upper Texas Gulf coast at the end of day 2, will expand and push eastward day 3, in a region of strongly difluent upper flow on the southeast side of the closed low over the Central to Southern Plains, across east Texas and into the Lower Mississippi Valley/Central Gulf coastal region. Activity that does form along the mid to upper Texas coast should be fairly progressive day 3, but with the overall strong upper dynamics, strong southerly onshore flow in an axis of above average PW values streaming off the western to central Gulf, heavy rains are likely. However questions for day 3 remain if the developing convection stays offshore, just along the Gulf coast or expands farther northward into northeastern Texas, Louisiana and southwest Arkansas. The current model qpf spread covers these solutions, giving low confidence at the moment. Changes to the previous outlook were to expand the slight risk area to to the north across northern Louisiana, northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas to cover the overlap of where the heaviest rains have fallen over the past few weeks and where there is some model support for heavy rains day 3. Oravec $$ --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux * Origin: Ilink: CCO - capitolcityonline.net (454:1/105) .