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LHZ421 Outer Saginaw Bay Sw Of Alabaster To Port Austin Mi To Inner Saginaw Bay- 943 Pm Edt Sun May 19 2024
Rest of tonight - East winds 10 to 15 knots diminishing to 5 to 10 knots after midnight. Mostly clear. Waves 1 to 3 feet. Monday - Southeast winds 5 to 10 knots becoming south 10 to 15 knots early in the afternoon. Mostly Sunny with a slight chance of showers in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of showers and Thunderstorms in the afternoon. Waves 2 feet or less. Monday night - South winds 10 to 15 knots. Partly cloudy in the evening becoming mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and Thunderstorms. Waves 2 feet or less. Tuesday - Southwest winds 10 to 15 knots. Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the morning, then a chance of showers and Thunderstorms in the afternoon. Waves 2 feet or less.
see lake huron open lake forecast for days 3 through 5.

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Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 1151 PM EDT Sun May 19 2024

KEY MESSAGES

- Warm and muggy conditions are expected early this week with daytime highs in the 80s.

- Chances exist for additional thunderstorms Monday afternoon. There will be a potential for strong to severe thunderstorms, but low confidence exists with exactly the strong to severe threat will occur.

- A much less humid airmass is expected for the end of the week.



AVIATION

VFR conditions will prevail into early Monday afternoon with just a short period of minor fog possible early in the morning. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible from mid/late afternoon into early evening. Additional activity may also funnel into the area into Monday night, but confidence in timing/location in low.

For DTW/D21 Convection...Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will be possible again late Monday afternoon into Monday evening. Strong to locally severe storms will be possible. While confidence is low in a storm actually impacting the terminal, the strongest storms will be capable of gusty winds, hail and very heavy downpours. Storm motion will be west to east at 30-40 mph.

DTW THRESHOLD PROBABILITIES...

* Low for thunderstorms after 20z-22z Monday afternoon.

PREV DISCUSSION
Issued at 341 PM EDT Sun May 19 2024

DISCUSSION...

A weak frontal boundary moving through Michigan early today supporting isolated showers and thunderstorms within the narrow thetae plume mentioned in the morning update. A warm airmass remains in place today with 850 mb temperatures to 14-15C. Forecast soundings for this afternoon suggest mixing depths well up through 850 mb. This supporting high temperatures into the 80s again for inland areas. Temperatures will be cooler and more in the 70s along the lakeshore communities. The high mixing depths will not have any significant effect on the winds as lower level column flow is at 15 knots or less.

Differential heating and surface convergence focused along the lake breezes and remnant frontal boundary from around Port Huron through the Detroit Metro region down to Monroe County is expected to trigger additional convection this afternoon. Current observations at 1930Z for KONZ show SSE wind and 76 degrees while nearby KDTW is at a WSW wind at 88 degrees. Still, fairly good consensus amongst the hi-res model suite for greater coverage of showers and thunderstorms to develop later this afternoon. The narrow thetae plume has now move into the eastern CWA shown well on visible satellite with the afternoon agitated cumulus field. Activity picks up over the next hour or so with isolated cells currently getting underway along the I-69 corridor east of Flint and across southern Sanilac County. Peak of activity develops southwestward between 4 pm and 9 pm. The warm and moist airmass is supporting good instability.
Mesoanalysis showing upwards of 2500 J/kg of MLCAPE centered across southeast Michigan. Mid level lapse rates are not too great at 6.5- 7.0 C/km with low level lapse rates where greatest convection is towards 9 C/km or slightly better. Very little shear in place as well at around 15 knots of bulk shear. This brings more pulse type thunderstorms along these boundaries with any outflow boundaries driving additional updrafts. High moisture is in place with PWATs to around 1.25 inch. All of this brings potential for water loaded downburst winds and brief heavy rainfall with any stronger thunderstorm that can develop. CAPE from -10C to -30C is in the 500- 700 J/kg range with 50 dbz 1 inch hail heights at around 27kft to 30kft bringing potential for at least small hail with the stronger updrafts. There are some limiting factors today that bring uncertainty to the forecast. These are the ridging extending into the central Great Lakes, the notable anticyclonic flow at 700 mb directly overhead where convection is being advertised, and potentially some weak capping around 600-700 mb. All of this could limit stronger convection or perhaps suppress wider spread convection. There is moderate confidence that thunderstorms should hold largely under severe criteria.

A shortwave trough will be lifting out of the central plains into Wisconsin and through the northern Great Lakes on Monday. This will lift a warm front northward and bring a renewed surge of moist advection and a chance for showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon. Daytime instability will be sufficient again to support thunderstorms with 1500-2000 J/kg of MLCAPE forecast by the RAP.
Shear will increase to around 35 knots towards the evening hours.
Uncertainty remains as to what sort of coverage will look like throughout the day. A Marginal Risk for severe weather exists across most of southeast Michigan tomorrow. A more southerly track of the vort max into northern lower Michigan will bring better strong to severe thunderstorm chances to central portions of the CWA whereas the northerly tracks focuses better severe thunderstorm chances towards the Tri-Cities.

Active weather stretch continues on Tuesday as a more dynamic low pressure system develops over the upper Mississippi River Valley.
Longer range models point towards precipitation potential downstream of this strengthening low on Tuesday morning maybe into early afternoon with a relatively brief dry period before activity moves in Tuesday night well ahead of the main cold front. Slowing of this front maintains shower and thunderstorm chances for much of Wednesday with a continued risk of severe weather depending on available instability. Cold front will cool things down out of the 80s for Thursday with surface high pressure likely bringing dry conditions during the late week period.

MARINE...

A weak cold front eases across southern Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, and western Lake Erie through this evening with isolated to scattered showers and storms possible in the nearshore waters.
Severe weather is not likely but localized downpours can be expected where storms do occur. Winds remain light behind the front, veering to north/northeast tonight before continuing around to east/southeast Monday morning at 10 knots or less. The front lifts back north as a warm front on Monday ahead of a low set to track in Monday night into Tuesday. This will bring an area of showers and storms mainly focused across northern/central Lake Huron. Winds and waves remain below Small Craft Advisory criteria with this system. A stronger low develops over the Plains on Tuesday, lifting into western Lake Superior on Wednesday. This will send a cold front across the region with stronger southerly winds to 20 knots or above preceding it. Less humid air settles in on a westerly breeze Thursday as high pressure builds in through the late week.

DTX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
MI...None.
Lake Huron...None.
Lake St Clair...None.
Michigan waters of Lake Erie...None.

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