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KEY MESSAGES

Issued at 153 PM CDT Sat Aug 8 2026

- Best chances for decent rainfall over the next 7-days will be this afternoon. While chances won't be zero outside of today, they will certainly be limited.

- Summertime heat will continue through the weekend, while heat index values will remain below hazard criteria, they will be borderline and it will be hot nonetheless.

- Drought conditions and fire weather concerns will continue to increase as the hot and mostly dry weather continues.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 153 PM CDT Sat Aug 8 2026

The radar has been very active today, mainly around and near the I-30 corridor, where a very slow moving line of showers and thunderstorms has dropped a decent amount of rain. While this activity did cover a large area from west to east, there remains large portions of counties that got no rain. For example, 6-hour flash flood guidance has estimated upwards of 3-5 inches of rainfall across central Howard county, with no rainfall across the northern portion of the county. So while it will give some relief in drought and fire weather concerns, it will not be enough to bring widespread help. Short range models hint that the convection will gradually come to an end late this afternoon and into the evening, however, they have not been handling this very well, so I kept PoPs going till around midnight. Today looks like our last good chance for some widespread precipitation across the region. We still have some low chances across portions of the area for Sunday and Monday, but models are showing much drier conditions heading into next week.

Temperatures: It's the south, its halfway between the start and middle of August...it is going to be hot. The main question is how hot. In terms of ambient afternoon highs, the story continues that we will be stagnant, meaning not much variability in daily afternoon high temperatures, at least through Tuesday. Similarly, low temperatures will follow in the same trend. As we move into the middle of next week, afternoon highs will return to the the upper 90s across the region, with some 100s sprinkled in across portions of the area. All indications are that these increased temperatures (compared to what we see through Tuesday) will last into next weekend. So I guess to sum that up, it is going to be hot through Tuesday and then get hotter from there into next weekend. Heat index values will remain elevated each day, reaching into the lower to mid 100s, but still not seeing enough to issue any sort of heat headlines for at least Sunday. Moving into Monday and next week will be a different story. /33/

AVIATION

(00Z TAFS) Issued at 647 PM CDT Sat Aug 8 2026

For the ArkLaTex terminals, all sites have been under the gun this aftn from an outflow arcing down from the I-30 and the N'wd lifting sea breeze. Convection continues to slowly move toward an end with sunset at hr away. Light S/SW winds prevail overnight and bump speeds to 5-10KT on Sunday. Models indicate possible light BR/VCSH E of I-49 around daybreak. The water vapor shows a shear axis overhead that is weakening, but will bring one last decent round of p.m. convection, now modeled to straddle I-20 again mid to late aftn with a hotter/drier trend this work week.

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SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT

Issued at 153 PM CDT Sat Aug 8 2026

Widespread spotter activation is not expected at this time, but any reports of flooding would be appreciated.

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

SHV 76 95 77 95 / 20 10 0 0 MLU 74 95 75 96 / 10 30 0 10 DEQ 70 96 72 97 / 0 0 0 0 TXK 74 96 75 97 / 10 10 0 0 ELD 71 93 73 95 / 20 20 0 10 TYR 76 97 76 97 / 10 10 0 0 GGG 75 97 74 97 / 10 10 0 0 LFK 74 95 74 94 / 20 10 10 10

SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

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