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Last Updated: 148 PM Wednesday, May 22 2013
.AVIATION /18Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... AS OF 140 PM EDT WEDNESDAY... SCATTERED MVFR/IFR CONVECTION DEVELOPING IN THE WARM UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS CWA THIS AFTERNOON. THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS WESTERN TAF SITES OF BLF/LWB/RNK. RNKWRF ARW SHOWED GOOD COVERAGE OF STORM ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. ECMWF/GFS GENERALLY CONSISTENT ON A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FAR SW VA FROM KY/TN IN THE 00Z-04Z TIME FRAME...THEN GENERALLY DISSIPATING AS MOVE EAST. FOR THE EAST... THERE IS POTENTIAL TSRA DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE NC PIEDMONT...LIFTING NORTHWARD TOWARD LYH/DAN/EVEN ROA BY LATE AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. S-SW WINDS 5-10KTS THROUGH TAF VALID PERIOD...WITH LOW END GUSTS ACROSS THE PIEDMONT. AREAS OF FOG WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING WHERE RAIN FALLS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. MEDIUM TO HIGH CONFIDENCE IN CIGS/VSBYS THROUGH TAF VALID PERIOD. HIGH CONFIDENCE IN WIND SPD/DIR THROUGH TAF VALID PERIOD.
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