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SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 07/29/08 0155Z
SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678
LATEST DATA USED: GOES-12 0145Z      CW
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LOCATION...N NEBRASKA...S SOUTH DAKOTA...
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ATTN WFOS...FSD...OAX...ABR...LBF...UNR...
ATTN RFCS...MBRFC...
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EVENT...MCS SHOWING BACKBUILDING AND OVERSHOOTING TOP INTO STRATOSPHERE
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SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...LATEST STLT IMAGERY SHOWS CLOUD
SHIELD FROM CLUTSER OF TSTMS WHICH IS EVOLVING INTO MCS CONTINUING TO
EXPAND ACROSS S-CENTRAL/SE SD..N-CENTRAL/NE NEBRASKA.  PAST 30 MINS
SOME BACKBUILDING HAS BEEN NOTED ACROSS TRIPP COUNTY/SD AND KEYA
PAHA COUNTY/NE.  HOWEVER..VERY HVY RAINS ARE FOUND FALLING ACROSS
GREGORY/CHARLES MIX/BRULE COUNTIES IN SD AS WELL AS BOYD COUNTY IN NE.
VIS IMAGERY ALSO SHOWS AN OVERSHOOTING TOP ALONG THE BORDER OF LYMAN/BRULE
COUNTIES IN SD...AND BASED ON IR OVERSHOOTING TOP HAS MADE IT INTO THE
STRATOSPHERE AS CLOUD TOP TEMPS ARE FOUND WARMING IN IR.
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AUTOMATED STLT ESTIMATES APPEAR UNDERDONE WITH 1.2" OVER THE PAST HR
OVER GREGORY/CHARLES MIX/BOYD COUNTIES.  IT IS LIKELY THAT CLOSER TO 2.0"
HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HR.
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WITH SLY LLVL JET EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN THIS EVENING...CONTINUE MOISTURE
TRANSPORT INTO THE MCS SHOULD CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HRS AS IT
SLOWLY MOVES EWD TOWARD NW IA/SW MN.
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SEE NCEP HPC DISCUSSION AND QPF/S FOR FORECAST.
....NESDIS IS A MEMBER OF 12 PLANET....
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SSD/SAB WEB ADDRESS FOR PRECIP ESTIMATES:
HTTP://WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV/PS/PCPN/
...ALL LOWER CASE EXCEPT /PS/PCPN/
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LAT...LON 4438 9668 4228 9666 4287 10040 4413 10040
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