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KEY MESSAGES

Issued at 1224 AM CDT Wed Apr 8 2026

- A nice and dry warming trend will unfold this work week with southeasterly winds and continued partly cloudy skies.

- The week's end will see a transition to at least a slight chance of thunderstorms over our far western TX counties. - A much better chance for showers and thunderstorms will arrive on Sunday and linger overnight into the new work week for all.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 1224 AM CDT Wed Apr 8 2026

We are looking at a continued dry weather pattern for a couple or few more days as the large surface air mass of late is now moving over the New England States. This very large air mass has scoured a good bit of the Gulf of America with it's NE winds, so while our surface winds are shifting back to southeasterly today, the richer tropical moisture will be a while coming this far inland. No big hurry for that as our recent rainfall has furthered the green up limiting our fire dangers of last month. Some burn bans remain and an updated map can be found on the top tabs of our home page at weather.gov/shv.

Overall, minimum RH for the afternoons fares better with SE wind compared to SW anyway. So, hopefully that and coming rains that are now showing up in the mid to long term models, can actually materialize and continue to limit a returning threat. The drought is still significant for much of the Four-State area and will require several more soaking events to fully set all of our concerns aside. Meanwhile, our skies will continue to see mid to mostly high clouds for a couple of days, but morning low clouds and at least a slight chance for some more rain will edge into our TX counties by Friday.

This coming chance for rainfall is in response to an upper low moving over the midWest U.S. and will be weakening as this chance for activity spreads farther eastward. However, by Sunday we will see enough moisture, heating and less zonal flow aloft and more of that needed SW flow aloft spreading over Texas and into the ArkLaMiss. So that's where the QPF will be best, over Texas for the next 7 days, but the next couple of upper lows in the long wave pattern will help to spread that needed SW flow aloft into the MS River Valley by next week and beyond. The CPC has issued their outlook yesterday for the coming days 8 to 14, and we have a gradient of above average (West) to near average (East) for expected rainfall during mid to late month. So more good news for sure as April earns it's name sake for the May flowers that are already blooming in many cases. /24/

AVIATION

(12Z TAFS) Issued at 519 AM CDT Wed Apr 8 2026

VFR conditions will prevail through this 24hr TAF period. High clouds are trying to break up across our airsapce attm and look for that trend to continue throughout the day. We may see some MVFR ceilings try to sneak into our far eastern airspace closer to sunrise Thursday Monring in the vicinity of the MLU terminal but have left out that probability in the MLU TAF for now. Look for SSE to ESE winds today with speeds generally at or near 10kts beyond 14z this morning with some higher gusts possible.

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SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT

Issued at 1224 AM CDT Wed Apr 8 2026

Spotter activation is not expected through this work week. /24/

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

SHV 81 57 82 61 / 0 0 0 0 MLU 82 53 83 58 / 0 0 0 0 DEQ 78 49 80 55 / 0 0 10 0 TXK 81 56 82 61 / 0 0 0 0 ELD 80 52 82 57 / 0 0 0 0 TYR 79 57 81 61 / 0 0 10 0 GGG 81 55 82 60 / 0 0 10 0 LFK 81 57 82 61 / 0 0 10 0

SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None.