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Isaac Heavy Rain Event


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farther south

1000 AM HEAVY RAIN PINE BLUFF 34.21N 92.02W

08/31/2012 M8.50 INCH JEFFERSON AR TRAINED SPOTTER

STORM TOTAL SO FAR COVERING 23 HOURS.

yep...probably a good sign of potential to come for someone in our region given the model insistence on really slowing things down over the area.

FWIW 12z GFS ensembles also jumped north

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High clouds from Isaac are moving in which is kind of neat, but we'd be lucky to get rain. Some models keep it totally south while others show some of the precip creeping into Wisconsin, but no more than 0.5". Isaac's wind field will be moving in though, GFS has 850 mb winds reaching 27 mph from the east at the closest approach.

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This is sorta interesting...since 1896, there have been 28 remnant storms that passed with 200 miles of LAF. The vast majority of these had some sort of easterly component in motion as they passed by but there are a few exceptions. If we narrow it down to 100 miles, the number drops to 12, or about a 1 in 10 year occurrence. Interestingly, there have been 4 to pass with 100 miles just since 2005 (Arlene, Dennis, Gustav, Ike). The closest are an unnamed storm in October 1923 and Ike in September 2008, both of which basically tracked directly overhead.

Here is the map for storms within 200 miles:

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Update

HPC has shifted day 1 heavy rains a little more north

QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST DISCUSSION

NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER COLLEGE PARK MD

610 PM EDT FRI AUG 31 2012

FINAL DAY 1...DAY 2 AND DAY 3 QPF DISCUSSION

VALID SEP 01/0000 UTC THRU SEP 04/0000 UTC

REFERENCE AWIPS GRAPHICS UNDER...PRECIP ACCUM - 24HR

UPDATE..

CHANGES TO THE PRELIM DAY 1 QPF WERE BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS

AND 1800 UTC NAM/GFS AND 1200 UTC ECMWF. THE AXIS OF THE HEAVIEST

QPF INVOF T.D. ISAAC WAS SHIFTED SLIGHTLY NWD...APPROX 40 NM...FOR

EARLY PERIOD TRENDS WITH ENHANCING CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY OVR ERN MO

AND GENERAL TRENDS IN THE EC AND NAM CONEST TO SHOW A SLIGHT NWD

TREND. THE GFS REMAINS THE NRN OUTLIER WITH THE NRN EXTENT OF

VERY HEAVY RAINS OVR NCNTRL IL...WITH SUPPORT FROM THE LATEST NAM

CONEST. WHILE THE FINAL DAY 1 QPF DID TREND SOMEWHAT

NORTH...STILL BELIEVE THE GFS TYPE SOLN MAY BE TOO FAR NORTH AND

DUE TO GRID SCALE ISSUES MORE COMMON TO THE GFS.

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The water tables will come up considerably with this event and that is key to agricultural interests in the spring. Nice to the see the 0.50" line creeping closer to my area.

Edit: Surprised to see no flood watches up south of I-80...!

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