Marine Weather and Tide Forecast for Elba, MN
April 25, 2025 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
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Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service La Crosse WI 643 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025
KEY MESSAGES
- The threat for widespread severe weather is increasing for Monday afternoon and evening with large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes all a possibility. Details on the exact timing of the storms and the hazard potential will be fine tuned over the next few days.
- Weekend Outlook: Sunny and seasonable temperatures for Saturday with scattered showers and storms for Sunday into Monday morning.
- Monday will be the warmest day of the week with highs surging into the 70s before temperatures slide back into the 60s for midweek.
DISCUSSION
Issued at 220 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025
Weekend Outlook: Sunny Saturday, Scattered Showers Sunday
Clouds clear overnight as today's rainfall departs to the east, setting the stage for a beautiful start to the weekend. Cannot fully rule out the possibility of localized fog towards sunrise, but with modestly strong winds just off surface, did not feel confident to mention fog in the forecast at this time.
Despite weak cold air advection on Saturday, ample sunshine will result in temperatures topping out near seasonal norms for this time of year in the low to mid-60s. Mid to high clouds increase in the afternoon and evening as the 500-mb ridge slides off to the east with a mix of sun and clouds for Sunday.
Southerly flow deepens for Sunday with steadily increasing theta-e advection in the lower to mid troposphere possibly fueling isolated to scattered showers, primarily north of I-90 where saturation in the 900-700-mb layer looks to be more likely, though mid-level lapse rates do not seem conducive to anything outside of showers and possibly a rumble of thunder.
Monday Afternoon/Evening: Severe Weather Threat
Moving past the weekend, all eyes remain fixed on the severe weather potential for Monday afternoon and evening. A deep longwave trough carves out the western CONUS by Sunday midday before ejecting northeastward across the central High Plains by midday Monday. At the surface, a broad warm sector becomes established across the central CONUS with a surface low tracking from the Colorado Front Range northeastward to the MN/ND/SD border by midday Monday. A dryline/pre-frontal trough will march into southwest Minnesota and western Iowa for Monday afternoon and serve as the focus for convective initiation during the late afternoon and evening hours.
As is typical at this time range from the event, fine scale details with the thermodynamic and kinematic fields will play a large role in how the severe weather threat evolves Monday afternoon and evening. There still exists appreciable variability (on the mesoscale) in the timing/position of the dryline, how quickly the warm sector destabilizes, and the wind profiles in the lower to mid-troposphere. Barring open warm sector convective initiation, storms are likely to develop along the dryline in southern Minnesota and advance eastward, congealing into a QLCS through the evening. How quickly this takes place will hinge on the orientation of the deep shear vector and the degree of inhibition in the warm sector. A very subjective view would favor discrete cells west of the Mississippi River with a QLCS mode more likely east of the river.
It is worth noting the strong consensus in the EPS and GEFS- based AI aggregate severe weather probabilities that have only been increasing over the last 24-48 hours. The latest 12Z probabilities are all highlighting a 30-60 percent corridor for the potential of severe weather (within 25 miles of a point) across Iowa into southern MN, which is an exceptionally strong signal for being 4 days out. The top 5 analogs from the CIPS guidance are all large severe weather outbreaks over the Upper Midwest, including several that produced longer tracked tornadoes (May 17, 1992, June 7, 2007, April 18, 2004, and April 10, 2011).
The details with this event will continue to be refined over the next few days. Please continue to check for forecast updates through the weekend.
Tuesday - Thursday: Seasonal Temps, Dry Midweek
The flow pattern quickly moderates in the wake of the trough passage Monday night into Tuesday, resulting in temperatures not straying too far below seasonal norms for midweek. Low- amplitude ridging ripples along the Canadian border late Tuesday into Wednesday, bringing a stretch of drier weather for this period. By Thursday, the next northern stream wave approaches, and while Gulf moisture is progged to remain south of the region, scattered showers cannot be ruled out with this trough passage.
AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY/
Issued at 643 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025
VFR conditions are expected throughout the TAF period as low-VFR to MVFR stratus continues to exit the region. As a result, expecting skies to become SKC by around 02z to 05z from west to east. Winds will slightly diminish overnight to around 5 kts before shifting to the east and remaining under 10 kts throughout the day on Saturday.
ARX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
WI...None.
MN...None.
IA...None.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service La Crosse WI 643 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025
KEY MESSAGES
- The threat for widespread severe weather is increasing for Monday afternoon and evening with large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes all a possibility. Details on the exact timing of the storms and the hazard potential will be fine tuned over the next few days.
- Weekend Outlook: Sunny and seasonable temperatures for Saturday with scattered showers and storms for Sunday into Monday morning.
- Monday will be the warmest day of the week with highs surging into the 70s before temperatures slide back into the 60s for midweek.
DISCUSSION
Issued at 220 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025
Weekend Outlook: Sunny Saturday, Scattered Showers Sunday
Clouds clear overnight as today's rainfall departs to the east, setting the stage for a beautiful start to the weekend. Cannot fully rule out the possibility of localized fog towards sunrise, but with modestly strong winds just off surface, did not feel confident to mention fog in the forecast at this time.
Despite weak cold air advection on Saturday, ample sunshine will result in temperatures topping out near seasonal norms for this time of year in the low to mid-60s. Mid to high clouds increase in the afternoon and evening as the 500-mb ridge slides off to the east with a mix of sun and clouds for Sunday.
Southerly flow deepens for Sunday with steadily increasing theta-e advection in the lower to mid troposphere possibly fueling isolated to scattered showers, primarily north of I-90 where saturation in the 900-700-mb layer looks to be more likely, though mid-level lapse rates do not seem conducive to anything outside of showers and possibly a rumble of thunder.
Monday Afternoon/Evening: Severe Weather Threat
Moving past the weekend, all eyes remain fixed on the severe weather potential for Monday afternoon and evening. A deep longwave trough carves out the western CONUS by Sunday midday before ejecting northeastward across the central High Plains by midday Monday. At the surface, a broad warm sector becomes established across the central CONUS with a surface low tracking from the Colorado Front Range northeastward to the MN/ND/SD border by midday Monday. A dryline/pre-frontal trough will march into southwest Minnesota and western Iowa for Monday afternoon and serve as the focus for convective initiation during the late afternoon and evening hours.
As is typical at this time range from the event, fine scale details with the thermodynamic and kinematic fields will play a large role in how the severe weather threat evolves Monday afternoon and evening. There still exists appreciable variability (on the mesoscale) in the timing/position of the dryline, how quickly the warm sector destabilizes, and the wind profiles in the lower to mid-troposphere. Barring open warm sector convective initiation, storms are likely to develop along the dryline in southern Minnesota and advance eastward, congealing into a QLCS through the evening. How quickly this takes place will hinge on the orientation of the deep shear vector and the degree of inhibition in the warm sector. A very subjective view would favor discrete cells west of the Mississippi River with a QLCS mode more likely east of the river.
It is worth noting the strong consensus in the EPS and GEFS- based AI aggregate severe weather probabilities that have only been increasing over the last 24-48 hours. The latest 12Z probabilities are all highlighting a 30-60 percent corridor for the potential of severe weather (within 25 miles of a point) across Iowa into southern MN, which is an exceptionally strong signal for being 4 days out. The top 5 analogs from the CIPS guidance are all large severe weather outbreaks over the Upper Midwest, including several that produced longer tracked tornadoes (May 17, 1992, June 7, 2007, April 18, 2004, and April 10, 2011).
The details with this event will continue to be refined over the next few days. Please continue to check for forecast updates through the weekend.
Tuesday - Thursday: Seasonal Temps, Dry Midweek
The flow pattern quickly moderates in the wake of the trough passage Monday night into Tuesday, resulting in temperatures not straying too far below seasonal norms for midweek. Low- amplitude ridging ripples along the Canadian border late Tuesday into Wednesday, bringing a stretch of drier weather for this period. By Thursday, the next northern stream wave approaches, and while Gulf moisture is progged to remain south of the region, scattered showers cannot be ruled out with this trough passage.
AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY/
Issued at 643 PM CDT Fri Apr 25 2025
VFR conditions are expected throughout the TAF period as low-VFR to MVFR stratus continues to exit the region. As a result, expecting skies to become SKC by around 02z to 05z from west to east. Winds will slightly diminish overnight to around 5 kts before shifting to the east and remaining under 10 kts throughout the day on Saturday.
ARX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
WI...None.
MN...None.
IA...None.
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Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) for KONA
Wind History Graph: ONA
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GEOS Local Image of Upper Mississippi Valley
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