Region Southern Plains
The readings under the map are for the whole map, not only the part shown.
GFS · Run 06Z 1 Oct · +0 h · Valid Thu 06Z 1 Oct
Nothing on the map has reached 0.25 mm yet · heaviest rate 35.06 mm/h at Thu 06Z
Wettest so far 169 mm, 65 km WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · heaviest rate 42.17 mm/h at Thu 12Z
Wettest so far 176 mm, 65 km WSW of La Cruz, Mexico · heaviest rate 23.6 mm/h at Thu 18Z
Wettest so far 189 mm at 20.0N 109.0W · heaviest rate 43.52 mm/h at Fri 00Z
Wettest so far 238 mm at 20.0N 109.25W · heaviest rate 41.22 mm/h at Fri 06Z
Wettest so far 257 mm at 20.0N 109.25W · heaviest rate 43.79 mm/h at Fri 12Z
Wettest so far 268 mm at 20.0N 109.25W · heaviest rate 10.85 mm/h at Fri 18Z
Wettest so far 275 mm at 20.0N 109.25W · heaviest rate 31.83 mm/h at Sat 00Z
Wettest so far 278 mm at 20.0N 109.25W · heaviest rate 38.85 mm/h at Sat 06Z
Wettest so far 320 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 30.78 mm/h at Sat 12Z
Wettest so far 327 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 29.23 mm/h at Sat 18Z
Wettest so far 330 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 38.58 mm/h at Sun 00Z
Wettest so far 330 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 38.8 mm/h at Sun 06Z
Wettest so far 332 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 23.26 mm/h at Sun 12Z
Wettest so far 334 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 28.07 mm/h at Sun 18Z
Wettest so far 334 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 18.58 mm/h at Mon 00Z
Wettest so far 334 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 24.38 mm/h at Mon 06Z
Wettest so far 334 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 21.44 mm/h at Mon 12Z
Wettest so far 335 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 27.48 mm/h at Mon 18Z
Wettest so far 335 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 11.7 mm/h at Tue 00Z
Wettest so far 335 mm at 20.0N 110.75W · heaviest rate 29.03 mm/h at Tue 06Z
One GFS run, issued 06Z 1 Oct — played forward 6 hours at a time, from its analysis to 120 hours out.
Methodology
Two of this site's films laid one over the other. Underneath is the Run total: everything this run puts down from its start to each frame, on Tropical Tidbits' scale. On top is the pressure Time lapse: the precipitation falling at that frame's time, on the radar scale, and the sea-level pressure at that time in 4 hPa isobars. So the rate moves on as the film plays and leaves its total behind it. The first frame is the analysis, where the run has put nothing down yet.
The total is a window and the rate and the pressure are instants, all read at the frame's valid time: the total runs from the start of the run to that time. Liquid-equivalent: snow counts as the water it melts to. GFS and ECMWF only, the two models here that publish an instantaneous rate.
Six-hourly to 120 hours. GFS forecasts out to 384 hours; this film stops at 120. The frames past the one shown load on demand. Uncorrected model output.
This map is drawn from model output we store ourselves, not from anyone's picture of it, and is based on data and products of NOAA. The per-city read of the same day — which cities the models are fighting about, and what the discussion makes of it — is on the national page.
Sources and licences
- NOAA: GFS, from NOAA's NOMADS server. US government data, not subject to copyright (NOAA/NWS terms of use).
What we change: each field is cropped to the frame these maps share when we download it, and each map then smooths, contours, differences or ranks those numbers as its Methodology says. These are our maps of the providers' numbers, not their products, and none of them has reviewed or endorsed this site.
Coastlines, borders, lakes and place names: Natural Earth, public domain.