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Issued by NWS Omaha/Valley, NE
Issued by NWS Omaha/Valley, NE
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561 FXUS63 KOAX 101045 AFDOAX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE 545 AM CDT Sun Aug 10 2025 .KEY MESSAGES... - Rain and thunderstorms will continue through 8 to 9 am across the region. The threat for severe thunderstorms will diminish by sunrise, with damaging winds of 60-80 mph possible until then. Flash flooding will remain possible, with rain rates of 2 to 4 inches per hour. - Additional strong to severe thunderstorms, along with flash flooding is possible Sunday evening into early Monday. Areas near and south of a Dorchester to Nebraska City in Nebraska, and Red Oak in Iowa may be impacted. - Temperatures will remain in the 80s for highs and 60s for lows through the end of the week, with temperatures rising into the 90s by the weekend. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 445 AM CDT Sun Aug 10 2025 Today through Sunday... Remnants of a severe MCS that moved across the forecast area overnight, currently is exiting southwest Iowa early this morning. Once again the CWA experienced multiple reports of 60 to 80 mph winds, along with flash flooding. The threat of severe weather is expected to exit the CWA by 5 am. Flooding and flash flooding will remain possible, as rain and thunderstorms linger until mid-morning. As such, extended the flood watch for areas north of Fairbury NE to Clarinda IA until 12 pm. The second flood watch for Nemaha, Pawnee and Richardson Counties in Nebraska will continue until 10 am on Monday. A surface stationary front will linger near the Iowa-Nebraska line through the evening hours, meanwhile the more effective H8 front will extend from a leeside low that will develop as a disturbance rounds the base of a H5 trough anchored to H5 low moving along the U.S. Canadian border. Storms the develop to the lee of the Rockies expected to follow a more pronounced theta-e axis oriented across northern Kansas, extreme southeast Nebraska into northwest Missouri during the evening and overnight hours. Uncertain about the severe threat, as impingement of the LLJ likely will occur south of the forecast area. However, PWAT remain in the 75-90 percentile for early August, thus expect better rainfall efficiency. Cannot discount another round of showers and storms Monday night into early Tuesday, as cyclonic flow aloft remains across the area. Expect the effective boundaries for convective focus will remain south and east of the area in general, thus any storms will just clip southeast portion of CWA. Clouds, convective debris and northeast winds will keep temperatures in the upper 70s to lower 80s today, falling into the 60s overnight. Monday will be a near repeat, though slightly warmer temperatures will be possible along the Nebraska-South Dakota border where less cloud cover is expected. Tuesday through Saturday... Medium range models indicating a quasi-stationary trough the will remain across the central plains Sunday and Monday will begin to move east, with upper level riding building into the region. This will allow a break in precipitation. East to northeast surface flow will keep temperatures in the 80s through mid-week. By late in the week, the upper level ridge will be center over Kansas and Nebraska which will allow temperatures to climb back into the 90s. A shortwave moving into the Pacific northwest will increase the potential for nocturnal convection in the Friday into Saturday timeframe, though the aforementioned ridge over the southern-central plains appears to channel the energy and may keep better storm threat north of the area. && .AVIATION /12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z MONDAY/... Issued at 541 AM CDT Sun Aug 10 2025 Stratiform rain continues to slowly push east-northeast this morning, with conditions expected to improve from the spotty MVFR ceilings and visibilities across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa back into the VFR territory by 14z. From there, expect northerly winds to settle in that become north- northeasterly overnight. Just beyond the TAF period, winds are expected to swing southerly again, with a 10-20% chance at seeing rain mid-Monday morning. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...Flood Watch until noon CDT today for NEZ066>068-078-088>090. Flood Watch through Monday morning for NEZ091>093. IA...Flood Watch until noon CDT today for IAZ079-080-090-091. && $$ DISCUSSION...Fortin AVIATION...Petersen