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Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

WFO TAE 12 KM and 04KM WRF Configurations
Core Init Time IC BC Fcst Length (hrs) Cumulus Scheme (12km only) Microphysics PBL LSM Longwave Radiation Shortwave Radiation SST LIS

ARW

00z 00z RAP 00z NAM-3 hrly 48 Betts-Miller-Janjic (2) Morrison (10) Yonsei(1) NOAH (2) CAM3 (3) Goddard (2) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
ARW 03z 03z RAP 00z GFS-3 hrly 60 Kain-Fritsch (1) Goddard (7) MYJ (2) NOAH (2) CAM3 (3) Dudhia (1) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
NMM 03z 03z RAP 00z GFS-3 hrly 48 Simplified Arakawa-Schubert (4) Ferrier (5) MYJ (2) NMM (99) GFDL (99) GFDL (99) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
ARW 06z 06z RAP 06z NAM-3 hrly 48 Kain-Fritsch (1) Goddard (7) MYNN2 (5) NOAH (2) RRTM (1) Dudhia (1) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
ARW 09z 09z RAP 06z GFS-3 hrly 60 Betts-Miller-Janjic (2) Milbrant-Yau (9) BouLac (8) NOAH (2) RRTM (1) Goddard (2) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
NMM 09z 09z RAP 12z NAM-3 hrly 48 Kain-Fritsch (1) Ferrier (5) MYJ (2) NOAH (2) GFDL (99) GFDL (99) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
ARW 12z 12z RAP 12z GFS-3 hrly 48 Betts-Miller-Janjic (2) Morrison (10) MYNN2 (5) NOAH (2) RRTM (1) Goddard (2) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
ARW 15z 15z RAP 12z GFS-3 hrly 60 Kain-Fritsch (1) WSM6 (6) QNSE (4) NOAH (2) CAM3 (3) Dudhia (1) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
NMM 15z 15z RAP 12z GFS-3 hrly 48 Betts-Miller-Janjic (2) Ferrier (5) MYJ (2) NMM (99) GFDL (99) GFDL (99) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
ARW 18z 18z RAP 18z NAM-3 hrly 48 Kain-Fritsch (1) Goddard (7) BouLac (8) NOAH (2) RRTM (1) Dudia (1) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
ARW 21z 21z RAP 18z GFS-3 hrly 60 Betts-Miller-Janjic (2) Milbrant-Yau (9) MYNN2 (5) NOAH (2) CAM3 (3) CAM3 (3) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT
NMM 21z 21z RAP 18z GFS-3 hrly 48 Simplified Arakawa-Schubert (4) Ferrier (5) MYJ (2) NOAH (2) GFDL (99) GFDL (99) SPoRT, rtg SPoRT