ZCZC NFDSPENES ALL SPENES . SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 07/07/07 1720Z SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678 LATEST DATA USED: G12 1700Z CK . LOCATION...S TEXAS... . ATTN WFOS...CRP...BRO... ATTN RFCS...WGRFC... . EVENT...UPDATE..TSTMS CONTINUE TO INCR OVER DUVAL/JIM WELLS COUNTIES . SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...CLOUD TOPS HAVE REACHED THEIR COLDEST LEVELS THUS FAR..-71C..OVER JIM WELLS COUNTY. WHILE THE LEADING EDGE OF THE CNVTN CONTINUES TO MOVE SLWLY E..NEW TSTM DEVELOPMENT IS OCCURRING OVER DUAVAL COUNTY. LATEST IMAGERY SHOWS SW-NE ORIENTATION OF THE NEW LN OF STMS..WHICH EXTENDS FM SRN DUVAL COUNTY TO JIM WELLS. AS A RESULT..SOME TRAINING AND MERGERS SEEM LIKELY FOR PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES. LEADING EDGE OF CNVTN..OVER JIM WELLS COUNTY..IS SPREADING EWD AND NEWD RESULTING IN HVY RAIN ACRS THE WRN BORDER OF SAN PATRICIO AND SE LIVE OAK COUNTIES. . PER OVERALL DISCUSSION IN PREVIOUS SPENES..AND LATEST TRENDS HERE..THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE CURRENT CONVECTION COULD FORM INTO AT LEAST A SMALL MCS. CELL MERGERS MENTIONED ABOVE WILL RESULT IN 2" OR MORE IN AN HR. . SEE NCEP HPC DISCUSSION AND QPF/S FOR FORECAST. ....NESDIS IS A MEMBER OF 12 PLANET.... . SSD/SAB WEB ADDRESS FOR PRECIP ESTIMATES: HTTP://WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV/PS/PCPN/ ...ALL LOWER CASE EXCEPT /PS/PCPN/ . LAT...LON 2833 9754 2747 9751 2723 9895 2828 9865 . NNNN