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WIZ000-ILZ000-MNZ000-IAZ000-191145-
Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 1329
NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD
145 AM EDT Sat Sep 19 2026
Areas affected...Southeast MN...Southern WI...Northeast
IA...Northern IL
Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding likely
Valid 190545Z - 191145Z
SUMMARY...Heavy showers and thunderstorms with locally
considerable areas of cell-training will continue overnight. Areas
of flash flooding are expected to continue through dawn, and this
will include locally significant urban flooding impacts given the
high rainfall rates and enhanced rainfall potential.
DISCUSSION...GOES-E IR satellite imagery shows strong convection
with very cold convective tops reaching -70 to -75C across
portions of southeast MN, far northeast IA and into southwest WI,
with the activity exhibiting considerable cell-training behavior
and producing very high rainfall rates.
The convection is aligned in a general west to east fashion along
a very well-defined elevated instability gradient situated well
north of a warm front focused farther south across portions of
central IA through central IL. Surface data though shows a wave of
low pressure up across western IA with an inverted surface trough
extending downstream from that across northern IA and into
southern WI.
MUCAPE values of around 1000 J/kg are noted in close proximity to
the main axis of convection which is a little north of this
surface trough, but the latest RAP guidance and VWP data suggests
an enhanced corridor of forcing/convergence around 850 mb where
much of the convection is rooted.
VWP data shows a 30 to 40+ kt southwest low-level jet riding up
across southeast MN and southwest WI which is driving rather
strong moisture and instability transport along with enhanced warm
air advection and related isentropic ascent. This is combining
with right-entrance region upper-level jet dynamics for
sustainable deep layer ascent and further providing the larger
scale support for well-organized and sustainable convection.
PWs are generally on the order of 1.75 to 2.0 inches away from the
ongoing areas of convection, and this moisture profile along with
the low-level jet and favorable thermodynamic environment will
support rainfall rates overnight as high as 2.5 inches/hour.
Already some areas of southeast MN have received 4 to 6 inches of
rain based on the MRMS radar-QPE data, and with additional strong
cell-training concerns expected for southeast MN and into adjacent
areas of southwest and south-central WI over the next few hours,
additional heavy to locally extreme rainfall is expected. In fact,
the latest HRRR guidance suggests an additional 4 to 6+ inches of
rain locally. These additional rains are expected to drive areas
of considerable flash flooding, with locally significant and
potentially life-threatening urban flooding impacts. It should be
noted that areas a bit farther south into northern IL may begin to
see some of these heavy rains arriving around dawn, and thus the
flash flood threat may increase here early Saturday morning.
Orrison
...Please see
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ATTN...WFO...ARX...DMX...DVN...LOT...MKX...MPX...
ATTN...RFC...MSR...NWC...
LAT...LON 44259263 43999086 43618873 43178757 42808715
42318717 41948751 41868815 41958935 42329119
43139313 43789378 44169361
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