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FXUS61 KILN 060134
AFDILN

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Wilmington OH
934 PM EDT Thu Jun 5 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
A slow moving front will stall out across the region through early
Saturday, providing periods of showers and storms. Seasonably warm
and humid conditions will prevail until some slightly drier air
returns to the area in the wake of the front.

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.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY MORNING/...
Stalled front draped from the northeast toward the southwest across
the CWA, with the weak surface low moving along. 00Z ILN sounding
indicated SBCAPE on the order of ~1700 J/kg, so we have a buoyant
environment with steep low level lapse rates. However, strong forcing
just is not present, so evening storms have been very slow movers
with lots of lightning. Not too concerned with severe threat but have
had some reports of quick ponding on roadways. 00z sounding sampled
PWATs at the 90th percentile, so any lingering overnight convection
will be heavy rain producers.

On that note, episodic showers and thunderstorms are anticipated to
continue to work through the region during the overnight hours thanks
to the weak forcing provided by the low pressure center.


Previous discussion--> Southwesterly mid level flow becomes more
westerly today. At the surface, a weak front will stall out across
the area overnight. An MCV moving thru central Ohio has resulted in
scattered showers and thunderstorms. A few of these storms contain
gusty winds. This activity will move out of ILN/s area late this aftn
leaving temporary stable air in its wake.

Airmass has responded across the west with MLCAPE values around 1000
J/KG. Scattered storms will continue to develop across the west -
with the best coverage across west central Ohio - closer to the
front. With weak effective shear and modest instby, expect this storm
development to be very disorganized/cellular. Can not rule out some
gusty winds with some of the stronger updrafts thru early evening.

Increase in moisture leads to precipitable water values around 150
percent of normal, so we should observe efficient rain rates and
locally heavy rain.

Models continue to indicate a weak surface low that tracks along the
quasi-stationary front overnight. This will offer weak forcing to
lead to additional isold to scattered shower/storm activity
overnight. This activity is not expected to be severe. Convective
coverage should diminish toward daybreak Friday.

A mild and humid night is on tap tonight with lows in the mid and
upper 60s.

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.SHORT TERM /6 AM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/...
Initial weak surface low moves east of the area Friday morning.
Ongoing isold showers/thunder early to push east with a general lull
in convective coverage thru the morning. Additional scattered shower
and thunderstorm activity is expected Friday afternoon with the best
coverage across the south as another weak wave ripples along the
front. Some of the stronger updrafts could produce strong to damaging
winds.

Thunderstorm activity weakens and becoming more scattered overnight
into Saturday morning.

Highs on Friday range from the upper 70s northwest to the lower 80s
along and south of the Ohio River. As some drier air begins to advect
into the area lows Friday night range from near 60 north to the mid
60s south.

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.LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
A frontal boundary will be near southern portions of the region at
the start of the long term.  This feature will then start to work
northward later on Saturday and into Saturday night bringing
precipitation chances back further north.  Shower and thunderstorm
chances continue into Sunday as well as a disturbance works through
the area.  Yet another system works through Monday into Tuesday
keeping additional precipitation chances in the forecast.  Dry
conditions are then expected to return for Tuesday evening through
much of the day on Thursday.  Due to several different systems
moving across the region in such a short amount of time there will
likely be some timing differences.  Due to this, went close to the
NBM for precipitation chances and did not go higher than likely pops
during any one time period.

High temperatures through the long term are expected to be in the
70s and 80s with lows in the 50s and 60s.

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.AVIATION /01Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
Messy forecast in store for the TAF period, unfortunately.

A stalled out front is draped across the region, bringing weakly
forced, episodic thunderstorms this evening. Have mention of -tsra at
sites where storms seem more probable. After sunset, have replaced
-tsra with episodic -shra instead. Precipitation continues in this
 nature through the day on Friday, though thunder is reintroduced to
 the grids by the afternoon hours.

CIGs will fall during the overnight hours to MVFR with patchy IFR.
Some LIFR is possible, particularly at sites along and north of I-70
during the early morning hours. With the reduced CIGs comes reduced
VSBYs, with most areas experiencing MVFR VSBYs.

CIGs and VSBYs slowly improve on Friday and we have a VFR BKN deck
throughout the day.

Winds will be light and variable overnight, becoming more
southwesterly on Friday, though under 10 knots.


OUTLOOK...Thunderstorms are possible through Friday. MVFR/IFR
ceilings are possible Friday night into Saturday. Some storms may
be possible early Sunday.

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.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...None.
KY...None.
IN...None.

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SYNOPSIS...AR
NEAR TERM...CA/AR
SHORT TERM...AR
LONG TERM...
AVIATION...CA