Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Cleveland, OH
Issued by NWS Cleveland, OH
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887 FXUS61 KCLE 031950 AFDCLE Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Cleveland OH 350 PM EDT Wed Jul 3 2024 .SYNOPSIS... A cold front will cross the lake tonight and stall near the Ohio River on Thursday. Low pressure will then develop west of the Great Lakes on Friday and will lift the stalled front north as a warm front. The low will extend a weak cold front across the lake on Saturday afternoon, followed by high pressure by Sunday into Monday. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... Main concern of the near term period will be over the next several hours as a line of pre-frontal showers and thunderstorms roughly along and east of the I-71 corridor continues to move east. For the most part, this line remains sub-severe with the exception of a more-dominant cell moving east across portions of Summit/Portage counties. Damaging wind gusts will be the primary threat with this cell. Otherwise, the most recent WOFS runs suggest that strong winds will remain possible along and east of the I-77 corridor through the rest of the afternoon associated with this line, albeit remaining sub-severe, generally 50 mph or less. Given the unfavorable mid-levels and widespread cloud debris behind this initial line of storms, not anticipating much redevelopment along and ahead of the actual cold front, currently located on a SW to NW axis just east of Chicago. This should result in a relative lull in precipitation for much of the area this evening and overnight as the weak cold front sags east to southeast through the area and stalls just south of the US-30 corridor. For Thursday (July 4), we`ll be monitoring another decaying convective complex across portions of IL/IN for any redevelopment of showers and storms across our area in the afternoon and evening hours. There remains a disparity between hires models on precipitation placement for the 4th, and will be dependent on where the cold front eventually settles/stalls this evening and overnight. Confidence remains low on the cold front placement on Thursday, though it appears precipitation chances are more likely along and south of the US-30 corridor. Temperatures on the 4th are expected to be seasonable, in the mid-80s. && .SHORT TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... Low pressure system will be occluding as it tracks into the Great Lakes Friday bringing the highest chances of showers and storms through the day 2-7 forecast. Dewpoints into the lower 70s and temperatures into the mid 80s will increase the SBCAPE to around 1500J/kg, combining with an increase in the low level winds ahead of the cold front for a thunderstorm threat for the CWA. Also noting significant drying above around 600mb with inverted V soundings introduces a wind threat with the storms. Will be watching to see how this unfolds in the upcoming forecasts and whether it all comes together, or conversely, factors that could hinder the threat for the day. Behind the cold front, cooler and drier airmass filters in, knocking the dewpoints and temperatures down 5-10 degrees for Saturday. Not much in the way of POPs for Saturday across the CWA, but may need to add some in for the cold pool convective chances with some lingering CAPE sandwiched above the boundary layer and below around 750mb. Question will be if there is enough layer humidity to produce precipitation. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... High pressure will be decaying as it moves through the Ohio Valley region, but will keep the CWA dry through Monday. Flow aloft turns southwesterly ahead of an upper level trough and an accompanying surface low pressure system/cold front that will move in Tuesday. This will become the next chances for showers and storms for the region, and with winds turning southerly, temperatures will be increasing through the long term forecast period. && .AVIATION /18Z Wednesday THROUGH Monday/... VFR across the TAF sites with primarily VFR to persist through the TAF period. Main focus will be over the next several hours as a line of showers and thunderstorms develops along the I-71 corridor and moves east, potentially impacting MFD/CAK/YNG with brief IFR tsra conditions and gusty winds. Otherwise, have vcts mention at CLE as the expectation is for storms to pass just south of the site. Don`t anticipate much redevelopment along the cold front later this evening. There is a low potential for patchy fog to develop across some of the inland sites overnight into early Thursday morning, though will be largely dependent on areas that receive rain this afternoon/evening. Winds are generally out of the southwest early this afternoon, 10 to 15 knots with gusts of 20 to 25 knots. Winds will diminish to light and variable overnight, favoring a northwest to north direction, around 5 knots, by Thursday morning behind a weak cold front. Outlook...Non-VFR possible in showers and thunderstorms on Friday. && .MARINE... Southwest winds tonight become light and variable Thursday, then southeasterly Thursday night with wave heights less than a foot after tonight. Winds southerly Friday 10-15kts ahead of a cold front capable of producing thunderstorms moving through west to east, becoming southwesterly 15-20kts Friday night. Wave heights increase to 1-3ft in the nearshore waters east of Cleveland, and 1- 3ft away from the immediate shoreline west through the islands to Toledo. by Saturday morning. Winds ease out of the northwest Sunday with waves 1-2ft. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...None. PA...None. NY...None. MARINE...None. && $$ SYNOPSIS...Kahn NEAR TERM...Kahn SHORT TERM...26 LONG TERM...26 AVIATION...Kahn MARINE...26/Sefcovic