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FXUS63 KJKL 141228  
AFDJKL  
 
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY  
828 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 2026  
   
KEY MESSAGES  
 
- UNSETTLED WEATHER RETURNS TODAY WITH WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND  
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ANTICIPATED.  
 
- THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY  
HEAVY RAIN, POTENTIALLY LEADING TO ISOLATED FLOODING, ALONG  
WITH STRONG TO LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.  
 
- COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO BEGIN THE WORK  
WEEK.  
 
- UNSETTLED WEATHER IS POISED TO RETURN FOR THE MIDDLE TO LATER  
PART OF THE NEW WEEK. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY  
RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT TO THURSDAY NIGHT.  
 
 
   
UPDATE  
 
ISSUED AT 810 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 2026  
 
CONVECTION IS SHIFTING ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE CWA IN  
ASSOCIATION WITH A LEAD SHORTWAVE TROUGH. AN ADDITIONAL SHORTWAVE  
TROUGH AND THE COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH LATER IN THE DAY AND THERE  
SHOULD BE AN UPTICK IN CONVECTION FOLLOWING SOME HEATING LATER  
THIS MORNING TO MIDDAY/EARLY AFTERNOON. THERE IS SOME UNCERTAINTY  
AS TO TO THE EVOLUTION OF CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON, THOUGH MOST  
RECENT HRRR RUNS HAVE A LINE OR BROKEN LINE WITH THE COLD FRONT  
CROSSING EASTERN KY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE HIGHEST  
CHANCES FOR STRONG TO DAMAGING WIND GUSTS SHOULD OCCUR WITH THE  
LINE/BROKEN LINE NEAR THE FRONT.  
 
 
   
SHORT TERM  
(TODAY THROUGH MONDAY)  
ISSUED AT 450 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 2026  
 
EARLY THIS MORNING, AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WAS CENTERED OVER ONTARIO  
TO THE SOUTHWEST OF JAMES BAY WITH AN UPPER TROUGH SOUTH ACROSS  
THE GREAT LAKES INTO SECTIONS OF THE MS AND OH VALLEY TO TN  
VALLEY REGION. A COUPLE OF SHORTWAVES WERE MOVING THROUGH THIS  
TROUGH ONE EXTENDING FROM SW OH TO CENTRAL KY TO WESTERN SECTIONS  
OF TN. SOME CONVECTION WAS OCCURRING IN ADVANCE OF THIS FROM OH  
SOUTH TO THE TN CUMBERLAND PLATEAU AS WELL AS OVER SECTIONS OF TN  
INTO MS. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WAS UPSTREAM OF THAT OVER THE MID MS  
VALLEY TO OZARKS VICINITY WHILE THE MAIN 500 SHORTWAVE TROUGH  
EXTENDED FROM THE UPPER LOW ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR TO THE UPPER MS  
VALLEY TO SECTIONS OF THE PLAINS/NE AND SD BORDER VICINITY. AT THE  
SURFACE, A FRONTAL ZONE EXTENDED FROM THE PARENT LOW IN QUEBEC TO  
A SFC WAVE IN MI AND THEN SOUTHWEST TO THE MID MS VALLEY TO  
SOUTHERN PLAINS. CURRENTLY ACROSS EASTERN KY, SFC DEWPOINTS  
RANGED FROM THE UPPER 50S TO LOW 60S NEAR THE VA BORDER AND NEARER  
TO DEPARTING SFC HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS AND  
THEN RANGED THROUGH THE 6 0S ELSEWHERE. SOME LOW 70S DEWPOINTS  
WERE IN PLACE ACROSS SECTIONS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN KY. PW WAS  
ANALYZED FROM 1 TO 1.1 INCHES ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN KY TO 1.5 TO  
1.9 INCHES FROM CENTRAL KY WEST INTO WESTERN KY. THESE VALUES WERE  
BELOW THE 60TH PERCENTILE IN SE KY TO THE 80 TO 90TH PERCENTILE  
ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE.  
 
TODAY AND TONIGHT, THE UPPER LEVEL LOW IN CANADA SHOULD MEANDER IN  
THE VICINITY OF JAMES BAY WHILE THE SHORTWAVE JUST UPSTREAM OF  
EASTERN KY MOVES ACROSS EASTERN OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS FOLLOWED  
BY THE NEXT SHORTWAVE MOVES ACROSS EASTERN KY THIS AFTERNOON  
FOLLOWED BY THE MAIN SHORTWAVE TROUGH AXIS THIS EVENING. BROAD  
UPPER TROUGHING SHOULD REMAIN IN PLACE FROM THE GREAT LAKES AND  
SECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL CONUS/MS VALLEY INTO THE LOWER OH AND TN  
VALLEYS BEHIND THAT SYSTEM. THE SFC FRONTAL ZONE MEANWHILE SHOULD  
PRECEDE THE MAIN SHORTWAVE TROUGH ACROSS EASTERN KY LATE THIS  
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THEN SFC HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD BUILD INTO  
THE OH VALLEY FROM THE CENTRAL CONUS. THIS FRONTAL ZONE SHOULD  
STALL ACROSS THE GULF STATES ON MONDAY AS THE SFC RIDGE OF HIGH  
PRESSURE SETTLES INTO THE OH VALLEY TO OK AREA.  
 
PER THE 00Z HREF MEAN PW SHOULD RISE INTO THE 1.6 TO 1.9 INCH  
RANGE BY LATE THIS MORNING AND REMAIN NEAR THOSE LEVELS UNTIL THE  
FRONT PASSES ON WARM AND MOISTURE ADVECTION. THESE VALUES  
GENERALLY PEAK IN THE 90TH TO 97TH PERCENTILE RANGE. UNCERTAINTY  
REMAINS IN CONVECTIVE EVOLUTION THROUGH THE REST OF THE OVERNIGHT  
THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON, THOUGH UPSTREAM TRENDS AND SOME GUIDANCE  
SUGGESTS AN UPTICK IN CONVECTION AHEAD OF THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND  
ASSOCIATED MOISTURE GRADIENT PRIOR TO DAWN AND FOR A COUPLE OF  
HOURS AFTER DAWN. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD BE SUB SEVERE, BUT BRIEF  
HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR. ANY LOCATIONS THAT PICK UP MULTIPLE STORMS  
EARLY THIS MORNING COULD BE PRIMED FOR LATER ACTIVITY. SOME  
ADDITIONAL SCATTERED ACTIVITY MAY OCCUR BY MIDDAY THROUGH MID  
AFTERNOON AS THE SECOND SHORTWAVE MOVES INTO THE AREA. GUIDANCE  
GENERALLY HAS A LINE OR BROKEN LINE/LINE SEGMENTS NEAR THE FRONT  
LATE IN THE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. MLCAPE DURING THAT TIMEFRAME  
SHOULD BE QUITE MODEST 500 TO 1250 J/KG WITH LOW LEVEL LAPSE RATES  
PEAKING AROUND 7 TO 8C/KM WITH RATHER MEAGER MID LEVEL LAPSE  
RATES. MUCAPE SHOULD GENERALLY PEAK AT 1000 TO 1500 J/KG WITH  
BULK SHEAR OF AROUND 20 TO 35 KT WITH THE HIGHER SHEAR VALUES  
ANTICIPATED ACROSS THE NORTH AND EAST. THIS FORECAST COMBINATION  
OF SHEAR AND INSTABILITY SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR THE LINE  
SEGMENTS/BROKEN LINE MENTIONED ABOVE WITH STRONG TO LOCALLY  
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS POSSIBLE. AS NOTED IF SOME LOCATIONS PICK UP  
MULTIPLE STORMS DURING THE EARLY MORNING OR THE POSSIBLE MIDDAY TO  
EARLY AFTERNOON ROUND OF CONVECTION AND THEN AGAIN WITH  
CONVECTION NEAR THE LINE, LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND ISOLATED  
INSTANCES OF HIGH WATER OR FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE. ALL OF THESE  
THREATS ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE HWO AND WILL ALSO BE COVERED ON  
SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WEB.  
 
ONCE THE FRONT SAGS SOUTHEAST OF EASTERN KY PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT, A  
SOME THINNING AND CLEARING OF CLOUD COVER SHOULD OCCUR AS HIGH  
PRESSURE BEGINS TO BUILD IN. FOLLOWING THE ANTICIPATED RAINFALL  
TO DAY AND WINDS SLACKENING, FOG AT LEAST IN VALLEYS AND PERHAPS  
MORE GENERALIZED/AREAWIDE IS POSSIBLE. FOR NOW WITH SOME  
UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE DEGREE OF CLEARING, DENSE FOG WAS LEFT OUT  
OF THE FORECAST GRIDS, THOUGH IT CERTAINLY CANNOT BE RULED OUT IN  
AREAS THAT PICK UP THE HEAVIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS TODAY. FOG SHOULD  
LIFT AND DISSIPATE WITHIN ABOUT 3 HOURS OF SUNRISE ON MONDAY AND  
WITH THE HIGH CONTINUING TO BUILD IN A COOLER AND DRIER AIRMASS  
WILL BE OVER EASTERN KY. TEMPERATURES SHOULD MAINLY RANGE THROUGH  
THE 70S FOR HIGHS OR ROUGHLY END UP 5 TO 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL  
FOR MID JUNE.  
   
LONG TERM  
(MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)  
ISSUED AT 230 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 2026  
 
BROAD UPPER-ATMOSPHERIC TROUGHING WILL DOMINATE THE SYNOPTIC WEATHER  
PATTERN OVER MUCH OF NORTH AMERICA FOR THE LONG-TERM FORECAST  
PERIOD. PROGRESSIVE SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES ARE PROGGED TO ROTATE  
AROUND THIS FEATURE, AND THERE IS ABOVE-AVERAGE MODEL AGREEMENT  
REGARDING THEIR POSITIONING, TIMING, AND EVOLUTION. AS A RESULT,  
CONFIDENCE IS HIGH THAT THE FIRST PART OF THE PERIOD WILL BE MARKED  
BY DRIER AND SEASONABLY PLEASANT CONDITIONS BEFORE A MID-WEEK  
WARMING TREND EMERGES. THAT TRANSITION CULMINATES IN A RETURN TO  
MORE ACTIVE WEATHER AS A SERIES OF WELL-DEFINED DISTURBANCES DIG  
INTO THE MIDWEST AND THEN THE GREATER OHIO RIVER VALLEY DURING THE  
SECOND HALF OF THE WORK WEEK. A SOUTHERN STREAM DISTURBANCE IN THE  
WESTERN GULF WILL FUNNEL MODIFIED TROPICAL MOISTURE INTO THE  
FORECAST AREA IN THIS SAME TIME FRAME, AND MEDIUM-RANGE MODELS ARE  
HINTING AT ROBUST LOWER AND UPPER LEVEL JET STREAK SUPPORT ACROSS  
THE REGION FROM WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. THESE INGREDIENTS  
COLLECTIVELY SUPPORT INCREASING RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA  
FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY, AND THEY PAINT ENOUGH OF A  
SYNOPTIC SIGNAL TO SUGGEST THAT SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY COULD COME IN  
THE FORM OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE EXACT DETAILS OF  
THAT CONVECTIVE FORECAST WILL BE DETERMINED BY MESOSCALE NUANCES  
THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN AT THE CURRENT TEMPORAL RANGE.  
HOWEVER, THIS SETUP HAS CERTAINLY CAUGHT OUR ATTENTION. OUR FORECAST  
AREA WILL LIKELY BE POSITIONED WITHIN A REGIME OF QUASI-ZONAL FLOW  
UNDERNEATH THE BASE OF THE TROUGH AXIS THROUGH FRIDAY. THUS, THE  
SURFACE FRONTAL BOUNDARIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISTURBANCES ALOFT  
WILL REMAIN IN OUR VICINITY FOR MULTIPLE DAYS IN A ROW AND CREATE  
THE POTENTIAL FOR MULTIPLE DAYS OF CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION IN A  
ROW. AS A RESULT, WE WILL ALSO NEED TO MONITOR THE POTENTIAL FOR  
LOCALIZED HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS DURING THIS STRETCH OF ACTIVE  
WEATHER. THANKFULLY, THE MEAN TROUGHING AXIS SHOULD DIG DEEPER INTO  
THE EASTERN SEABOARD BY NEXT WEEKEND AND THE BOUNDARIES SHOULD  
ACCORDINGLY SHIFT SOUTH INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. SUCH A SHIFT  
WOULD PLACE THE COMMONWEALTH IN A REGIME OF VERTICALLY-STACKED  
WESTERLY TO NORTHWESTERLY FLOW, AND THE RESULTANT DRY AIR ADVECTION  
ALLOWS THE PERIOD TO END ON A QUIETER NOTE.  
 
WHEN THE PERIOD OPENS ON MONDAY NIGHT, THE FORECAST AREA WILL BE  
FIRMLY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE COOLER AND DRIER EARLY-WEEK  
AIRMASS. EXPECT OVERNIGHT RIDGE-VALLEY TEMPERATURE SPLITS (RIDGETOPS  
IN THE 50S AND VALLEYS IN THE UPPER 40S) AND SUBSEQUENT RIVER VALLEY  
FOG FORMATION. AFTER ANY FOG BURNS OFF IN THE AM, TUESDAY LOOKS TO  
BE ANOTHER DRY AND MOSTLY SUNNY DAY. AFTERNOON HIGHS WILL BE A FEW  
TICKS HIGHER ON TUESDAY THAN THEY WERE ON MONDAY THOUGH, AS WEST-  
SOUTHWESTERLY SURFACE WINDS WILL KICKSTART THE AFOREMENTIONED  
MIDWEEK WARMING TREND. WITH THE WARMING TREND COMES INCREASED  
MOISTURE AND THUS INCREASED SENSIBLE WEATHER FORECAST UNCERTAINTY.  
CONFIDENCE WAS NOT HIGH ENOUGH TO COMMIT TO SIGNIFICANT RIDGE-VALLEY  
TEMPERATURE SPLITS ON TUESDAY NIGHT, AS THE FIRST SHORTWAVE LOOKS TO  
DIG INTO THE REGION BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS INTRODUCES BREEZIER  
WINDS, LOW-END RAIN SHOWER CHANCES, AND RELATIVELY GREATER AMOUNTS  
OF SKY COVER TO THE FORECAST GRIDS THAN ON THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. THOSE  
CONDITIONS WOULD NOT FAVOR LARGE SPLITS, BUT IF THE CLOUD COVER  
ARRIVES LATE ENOUGH IN THE NIGHT, THE SHELTERED AND SHADED EASTERN  
VALLEYS/HOLLOWS COULD STILL DECOUPLE.  
 
THE POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS ON WEDNESDAY MORNING COULD PLAY A ROLE IN  
DETERMINING THE CONVECTIVE ENVIRONMENT LATER THAT AFTERNOON/EVENING.  
ANY RESIDUAL BOUNDARIES LEFT BEHIND (SUCH AS AN OUTFLOW OR A  
DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARY) COULD ACT AS A FOCAL POINT FOR  
ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND STORMS AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE  
80S ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. BREEZY SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS COULD GUST UP  
TO 20MPH DURING PEAK DIURNAL HEATING, AND THE SHIFTING FEATURES  
ALOFT WILL YIELD INCREASINGLY EFFECTIVE WAA AND MOISTURE RETURN IN  
THIS TIME FRAME. INSTEAD OF DYING OFF AFTER SUNSET, THOSE  
WINDS/GUSTS ARE ACTUALLY FORECAST TO STRENGTHEN OVERNIGHT INTO  
THURSDAY. SUSTAINED SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS BETWEEN 10 AND 15MPH (WITH  
GUSTS POTENTIALLY APPROACHING WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA) WILL CONTINUE  
TO PUMP WARM, MOIST AIR INTO THE FORECAST AREA ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT,  
AND LOWS MAY NOT DIP MUCH BELOW THE 70 DEGREE MARK. THIS IS ATYPICAL  
FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR, AND EFI/SOT DATA CONTINUES TO SIGNAL THAT  
UNUSUAL WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS TIME FRAME. ALL  
OF THIS BOILS DOWN TO APPROACH OF A SECOND, SHARPER SHORTWAVE,  
WHICH WILL BE MET WITH PLENTY OF UPPER LEVEL KINEMATIC SUPPORT TO  
SPARK STRONG TO SEVERE CONVECTION UPSTREAM. GIVEN THE PATTERN AND  
THE SEASON, THAT CONVECTION WILL LIKELY CONGEAL INTO AN MCS AS IT  
MOVES TOWARDS THE BLUEGRASS, WHERE IT WILL ENCOUNTER THE NOCTURNAL  
INTENSIFICATION OF AN 850MB JET STREAK TO BETWEEN 50 AND 70  
KNOTS. WINDS OF THIS MAGNITUDE ALOFT WILL HELP PROVIDE AMPLE SHEAR  
TO SUSTAIN CONVECTION, AND THE UNUSUALLY WARM/WINDY CONDITIONS  
FORECAST IN OUR CWA THAT NIGHT WILL WORK TO KEEP SUFFICIENT MUCAPE  
IN PLACE. THUS, THERE WAS ENOUGH OF A SIGNAL IN THE MODELED  
KINEMATIC AND THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT FOR THE STORM PREDICTION  
CENTER TO OUTLINE A SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ALONG THE I-64 CORRIDOR  
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. MEDIUM-RANGE CONVECTIVE GUIDANCE  
DERIVED FROM MACHINE LEARNING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND  
ANALOGOUS EVENT ANALYSIS DATA FURTHER SUPPORT THIS NOTION, WITH  
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS THE MOST LIKELY HAZARD TYPE.  
 
THE MESOSCALE EVOLUTION OF WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S ACTIVITY WILL PLAY A  
CRUCIAL ROLE IN DETERMINING THE PARAMETER SPACING FOR ANY ADDITIONAL  
CONVECTION IN OUR FORECAST AREA ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MODELS  
SUGGEST THAT THE SURFACE FRONT RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT ACTIVITY WILL  
NOT HAVE MADE ITS WAY THROUGH THE ENTIRE CWA BY THEN. THEY ALSO KEEP  
30-40 KNOTS OF SOUTHWESTERLY 850MB FLOW OVER THE CWA THROUGH  
THURSDAY NIGHT. DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF DIURNAL WARMING AND  
DESTABILIZATION REALIZED TO THE SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY, ANOTHER ROUND  
OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. WITH HIGH FREEZING  
LEVELS AND DEEP MOISTURE IN PLACE, DAMAGING WINDS WOULD ONCE  
AGAIN BE THE FAVORED HAZARD TYPE. REGARDLESS OF SEVERE STORM  
DEVELOPMENT, THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL CONVECTIVE RAINFALL  
BEARS WATCHING. LOCALIZED HYDROLOGICAL ISSUES MAY EMERGE WHEREVER  
MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF ACTIVITY TRACK, AND THIS POTENTIAL CASCADES  
INTO FRIDAY AS THE PREVIOUSLY-DISCUSSED QUASI-ZONAL FLOW REGIME  
PERSISTS ALOFT. THE COMPOUNDING FORECAST UNCERTAINTY PRESENTED BY  
THE MESOSCALE UNKNOWNS IN THIS SETUP PRECLUDES THE MENTION OF  
SPECIFIC RAINFALL TOTALS, BUT THERE IS A 70-80% CHANCE FOR AT  
LEAST 1 INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA THROUGH FRIDAY  
EVENING IN THE LREF DATA. WHEN THIS THRESHOLD IS INCREASED TO 2  
INCHES, THOSE PROBABILITIES HOVER AROUND THE 40-50% THRESHOLD. IT  
IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE LREF DOES NOT HAVE ANY EXPLICITLY  
CONVECTION-ALLOWING MEMBERS IN ITS ENSEMBLE. THUS, IT WILL BE  
INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HIGHER-RESOLUTION, CAM-INCLUSIVE ENSEMBLES RESOLVE  
THESE PROBABILITIES AS THE EVENT APPROACHES. AT THE VERY LEAST,  
THIS RAINFALL SHOULD PROVE BENEFICIAL TO THE AREA'S ONGOING  
DROUGHT CONCERNS. WE RECOGNIZE THAT SOME OF RECENT RAIN CHANCES  
HAVE NOT COME TO FRUITION AREA-WIDE, BUT THE PARENT FEATURES  
RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE CHANCES HAVE BEEN FAR MORE SUBTLE THAN WHAT  
IS EMERGING IN THE WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY WINDOW. THE MAGNITUDE OF  
THOSE FEATURES AND THE CUMULATIVE NATURE OF THIS ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN  
DEMAND ATTENTION, SO INTERESTS ARE ACCORDINGLY ENCOURAGED TO STAY  
TUNED TO FUTURE FORECAST UPDATES.  
 
 
   
AVIATION  
(FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z MONDAY MORNING)  
ISSUED AT 810 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 2026  
 
OUTSIDE OF SHOWERS MAINLY LOCATED BETWEEN KJKL AND KSJS AT ESSENES  
TIME AND POSSIBLY SOME LINGERING VALLEY FOG WHERE SOME SUB VFR  
CONDITIONS WERE OCCURRING, VFR WAS REPORTED AT ISSUANCE TIME. ANY  
REMAINING VALLEY FOG SHOULD LIFT AND DISSIPATE BY 13Z WHILE THE  
INITIAL CONVECTION SHOULD SHIFT EAST OF EASTERN KY DURING THE  
FIRST HOUR OR TWO OF THE PERIOD. A BIT OF A LULL IN COVERAGE MAY  
THEN OCCUR THOUGH ISOLATED ACTIVITY CANNOT BE RULED OUT THOUGH  
AFTER A FEW HOURS OF HEATING, ENOUGH INSTABILITY SHOULD DEVELOP BY  
THE 16Z TO 20Z PERIOD FOR AN INCREASE IN COVERAGE. THIS  
CONVECTION WOULD LEAD TO MVFR AND EVEN SOME IFR OR BRIEFLY LOWER  
REDUCTIONS AS IT PASSES. A LINE OF STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS MAY  
ACCOMPANY A COLD FRONT AFFECTING THE AREA FROM NORTHWEST TO  
SOUTHEAST BETWEEN ABOUT 21Z AND 02Z. HOWEVER, CONFIDENCE IN TIMING  
FOR ANY GIVEN LOCATION REMAINS LOW AS MESOCALE FEATURES WILL  
DRIVE MUCH OF THE DETAILS. AS SUCH, CHANCES FOR THUNDER WERE  
HANDLED WITH PROB30 GROUPS. THE STRONGER STORMS WITHIN THE LINE  
COULD PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTS AS HIGH AS 25 TO 40KT. OTHERWISE, NEAR  
AND BEHIND THE COLD FRONT BETWEEN 00Z AND 06Z, A FEW HOURS OF MVFR  
REDUCTIONS IN CEILINGS ARE ANTICIPATED. ALSO THERE SHOULD BE SOME  
DEGREE OF CLEARING AS WELL AND FOG WITH REDUCTIONS INTO THE MVFR  
AND IFR RANGES IF NOT LOWER IN SOME INSTANCES WILL BECOME A  
CONCERN BY 06Z AND AFTER.  
 
 
   
JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES  
 
NONE.  
 
 
 
 
 
UPDATE...JP  
SHORT TERM...JP  
LONG TERM...MARCUS  
AVIATION...JP  
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