ZCZC NFDSPENES ALL SPENES SDZ000- . SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 07/29/08 0050Z SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678 LATEST DATA USED: GOES-12 0015Z CW . LOCATION...SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA... . ATTN WFOS...FSD...ABR...UNR... ATTN RFCS...MBRFC... . EVENT...CELL MERGER BETWEEN TWO VERY STRONG CELLS . SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...NEARLY IMMINENT MERGER TO OCCUR BETWEEN TWO VERY STRONG CELLS INVOF GREGORY/TRIPP/S LYMAN/S BRULE/CHARLES MIX COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN SD. CELL OVER LYMAN/BRULE MOVING SSE WHILE CELL OVER BOYD/ND..GREGORY/SD IS MOVING NNE. RAIN RATES COULD LIKELY JUMP AND APPROACH 2.0"/HR WITH MERGER. . 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 4422 9793 4313 9786 4305 10017 4413 10040 . NNNN