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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Saint Louis MO
400 PM CDT Sun Jul 7 2024

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will impact the
  area, expanding eastward across the CWA tonight through Monday.

- An isolated strong-severe storm is possible into early evening
  across parts of northeast Missouri and west-central Illinois,
  and across southeast Missouri and southern Illinois on Monday
  afternoon.

- The remnant circulation of Tropical Cyclone Beryl is expected to
  track across southeast Missouri and southern Illinois on Tuesday
  and Tuesday evening. There remains some uncertainty in the exact
  track, but a swath of heavy rain from 2-4 inches will likely
  accompany the track which could pose flooding concerns.


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.SHORT TERM... (Through Monday Afternoon)
Issued at 238 PM CDT Sun Jul 7 2024

A series of vort maxes across western MO along with a weak boundary
in western MO have already lead to the development of showers and
thunderstorms from northeast through west-central MO this
afternoon. There is some pretty decent instability ahead of the
storms into northeast MO and this along with effective shear of
25-30 kts could result in a few strong to severe storms into early
evening with one inch hail and damaging winds the main threat.
Otherwise these vorticity maxima along with an increasing
southwesterly LLJ and the advancing boundary should lead to
scattered to numerous showers and storms impacting primarily
northeast and central MO and west-central IL tonight.

The upstream longwave trof is forecast to steadily deepen and
progress eastward on Monday with additional disturbances in the
flow aloft and the aforementioned boundary providing the impetus
for scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms. The exact
convective trends are a bit unclear but there should be some
combination of ongoing activity in the morning and then newer
development across east-central and southeast MO and southern IL
in the afternoon where the best instability will reside. Isolated
strong to severe storms would be possible with the afternoon
storms and this has been supported by a few of the CAMS.

Glass

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.LONG TERM... (Monday Night through Next Sunday)
Issued at 238 PM CDT Sun Jul 7 2024

The latest guidance shows the southern portion of the progressive
upper trof will have a greater interaction with TC Beryl and will
be deeper, leading to a more northward track following the recurvature.
The latest NHC forecast along with latest superensemble track
guidance suggests the center of the remnant circulation will track
across southeast MO and southern IL Tuesday and Tuesday night.
Rain will spread into southeast MO and southern IL late Monday
night associated with the initial surge of mid-high level moisture
and the interaction with an ULJ to the north. Present indications
are a band of locally heavy rain, 2-4 inches, will accompany the
remnants of Beryl as it tracks through the CWA. At this time and
given the current track, it appears this band will be centered
through southeast and east-central MO and southwest IL. If there
is favorable overlap where we saw heavy rain in early July across
eastern MO and southwest IL where soil moisture is high, then
there could be some flash flood concerns. The additional rainfall
will certainly add to the mainstem river flooding and potentially
produce river flooding in smaller basins south of St. Louis.
Depending on the exact low track and timing, there could be
tornado threat across parts of southeast MO and southern IL closer
to the low but this is highly conditional on the low track.

After the remnant low exits to the east-northeast on Wednesday it
appears that all-in-all we should see a tranquil period. We might
see an isolated diurnal thunderstorm across parts of the area on
Thursday afternoon, but it looks predominately dry heading late
week into next weekend.

Temperatures on Tuesday will be well below normal due to clouds
and rain, but rising heights late week into the weekend signal a
return to more summer-like heat with highs in the 90s.

Glass

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.AVIATION...  (For the 18z TAFs through 18z Monday Afternoon)
Issued at 1237 PM CDT Sun Jul 7 2024


For KCOU, KJEF, and KUIN: Scattered showers and thunderstorms
will continue to develop across western MO this afternoon, and
eventually develop or move into central and northeast MO by late
afternoon and into the evening. This has prompted VCTS at KJEF,
KCOU, and KUIN generally within the 00-03/04z time frame, and if
there is a direct terminal impact then flight conditions will be
reduced and gusty winds will be possible as well. After around
04z, there will be potential for showers into the overnight hours
impacting these same terminals, and then some MVFR stratus on
Monday morning.

For KSTL, KSUS, and KCPS: At this time, the St. Louis region
terminals are expected to be VFR and remain east of the shower and
thunderstorm activity through tonight. Showers and maybe evening
a thunderstorm will be possible after 14-15z Monday however
confidence is low, hence at this time only VCSH has been
mentioned.

Glass

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.LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...None.
IL...None.
&&

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